Videophiled Classic: ‘Private Property’ rediscovered and restored, plus new editions of Welles’s ‘Macbeth,’ Ford’s ‘The Quiet Man,’ Cronenberg’s ‘Dead Ringers’ and more

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 19, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Private Property (Cinelicious, Blu-ray+DVD) – Put this 1960 film in the “Lost and Found” category. The directorial debut by Leslie Stevens, a playwright and screenwriter and protégé of Orson Welles, it’s a neat little sexually-charged psychological...

Videophiled Essential: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’ at 40 and ‘Boxcar Bertha’ on Blu-ray

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 8, 2016 | Features, What's Hot

Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Blu-ray) Boxcar Bertha (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) Martin Scorsese’ incendiary 1976 masterpiece of alienation and anger and urban anxiety may be the most maverick vision of seventies American cinema. It is certainly one...

Videophiled: Criterion’s ‘La Chienne’ and ‘Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy,’ plus ‘Star Trek II’ Director’s Cut and the ultimate ‘Blood Bath’ on Blu-ray

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 28, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

La Chienne (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second sound film by Jean Renoir, is arguably his first masterpiece and it shows Renoir already using sound both subtly and creatively back in 1931. Adapted from a novel by Georges de La Fouchardière, it stars Michel Simon as...

Videophiled: Julianne Moore soars in ‘Still Alice,’ two by Corman and Milland, Hitchcock’s ‘Jamaica Inn’

by Sean Axmaker | May 12, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Still Alice (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Julianne Moore won her first Academy Award (after four nominations since Boogie Nights in 1998) playing a renowned linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and starts to experience her...

Olive Garden – ‘The Wild Angels,’ ‘Psych-Out,’ ‘Eat Drink Man Woman,’ ‘Kiss Me Stupid,’ ‘Pork Chop Hill’ and more recent releases from Olive Films

by Sean Axmaker | Feb 27, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Before Easy Rider there was The Wild Angels (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD), directed by Roger Corman and starring Peter Fonda as Heavenly Blues, the leader of a California chapter of Hell’s Angles. This is a gang of disaffected drop-outs and scruffy road rats who live to...