by Sean Axmaker | Jul 21, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
I’ve been remiss in my Twilight Time coverage. It is one of my favorite Blu-ray labels and has been quietly but expertly releasing beautiful Blu-ray editions of (almost exclusively) classic and contemporary American films. Over the last couple of years, Twilight...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 7, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Killers (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) is an ingenious double feature: Two crime classics inspired by the Ernest Hemingway short story. Criterion originally released a DVD double feature over a decade ago. Both films have been remastered in HD for the set’s...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 22, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Adua and Her Friends (Raro / Kino Lorber, Blu-ray) are prostitutes from a Rome brothel attempting to take charge of their own lives after their place is shut down in the aftermath of Italy’s Merlin Law, which ended legalized prostitution in 1958 (the film was...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 20, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – In the late 1950s and early 1960s, no American director melded classic Hollywood style and cool modern European elegance better than producer/director Otto Preminger. His handsome films are celebrations of...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 27, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Party (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) reunited Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers after a falling out during the second Pink Panther movie for a difference kind of comedy: a modern sound version of a silent movie comedy. They don’t pretend it’s a silent film,...
