by Sean Axmaker | Aug 9, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The new Kino Lorber Studio Classics line follows the model that Olive initiated with its releases from the Paramount catalog. Kino’s licensing deal with MGM (the current MGM entity, which is largely made up of United Artists productions; the grand old MGM studio...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 12, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Man From Laramie (Twilight Time, Blu-ray), Anthony Mann’s seventh and final collaboration with James Stewart and his first widescreen film, is a frontier “King Lear” by way of Mann’s favorite themes of splintered families and filial betrayal....
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 3, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu-Ray), one of Sam Peckinpah’s personal favorites of his films (and the rare Peckinpah film not to get reworked by the studio), opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 13, 2014 | News
Grindhouse Releasing, known for the resurrection and restorationof such films as Lucio Fulci’s gonzo horror The Beyond, Amos Sefer’s exploitation oddity An American Hippie in Israel and most recently a lavish edition of Sergio Sollima’s spaghetti...