by Sean Axmaker | Sep 25, 2016 | Features, Home Viewing, What's Hot
Pioneers of African-American Cinema (Kino, Blu-ray, DVD) – The legacy of African-American filmmaking—specifically films made by and for African-American audiences before Hollywood integrated its casts and gave leading roles to African-American actors—is largely...
by Sean Axmaker | May 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A Married Woman (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), subtitled “Fragments of a film shot in 1964,” is Jean-Luc Godard’s modern portrait of love and sex in the media-saturated sixties with Macha Méril in a role that was clearly meant for Godard’s wife and...
by Sean Axmaker | May 16, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD), a quasi-New Wave spoof of the kind of detective yarns that Hollywood pumped out in the forties and fifties, is one of the most obscure films by Samuel Fuller, the idiosyncratic American auteur famous for melding...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 12, 2015 | Home Viewing, News, What's Hot
The Marquise of O (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – After Eric Rohmer completed his “Six Moral Tales,” and before launching into the “Comedies and Proverbs,” he tackled two projects very different than anything else in career. The first of these,...