by Sean Axmaker | Dec 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Moana with Sound (Kino Classics, Blu-ray, DVD) – After creating what (in retrospect) is generally considered the first documentary feature, Nanook of the North, in the snows of northern Canada, filmmaker Robert Flaherty traveled to the South Seas island of...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali / Aparajito / Apur Sansar (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – In 1955 Satyajit Ray, a young graphic artist in the advertising industry, released his debut feature, a labor of love made independently over the course of two and a half years....
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 5, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Sherlock Holmes (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) – The 1916 Sherlock Holmes was not the first film based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective but it is by all accounts the first Holmes feature and in many ways it remains the most important Holmes film ever made....
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 14, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Lon Chaney became a star for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) but it was the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera (Kino Classics, Blu-ray, DVD) that confirmed his stardom and his talent. The first version of many versions of the Gaston Leroux novel is still considered the...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 14, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Epic of Everest (Kino Classics, Blu-ray, DVD), the film record of the third British ascent of Everest, was an event in itself in 1924. Its restoration is almost as much an event. Unavailable for years, with elements in the BFI film vault waiting for years to be...
