by Sean Axmaker | Dec 31, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
“If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema, I would place a statue of [Julien] Duvivier above the entrance….This great technician, this rigorist, was a poet.” – Jean Renoir Julien Duvivier in the Thirties (Eclipse, DVD) collects...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 25, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The House of Mystery (La Maison du Mystère) (Flicker Alley, DVD) – Serials—the adventure cliffhangers what would play out in theaters before the main feature at a chapter a week—are commonly dismissed as kid stuff, glorified B-movies cranked out with little thought...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 22, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix), written and directed by California-based and Iranian-born filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, is a genre film with a fresh approach and a distinctive cultural texture: a vampire movie from a female...