by Sean Axmaker | Nov 28, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
I Wake Up Screaming (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) is not just one of the great movie titles of classic cinema, it is one of the films that established the distinctive style and attitude of film noir, from the blast of a headline shouting BEAUTIFUL MODEL FOUND...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 27, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The House on 92nd Street (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray), a 1945 World War II espionage thriller based on a real life FBI case, launched what would become the semi-documentary strain of film noir. It opens with the authoritative narration of Reed Hadley...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Kamikaze ’89 (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder takes a rare onscreen lead in what would be his last screen appearance in Wolfgang Kremm’s 1982 new wave science fiction cop drama. Based on a satirical science fiction novel by Swedish...
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...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) Pan’s Labyrinth (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) Boyhood (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), Robert Altman’s...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 24, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Violent Cop (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) Boiling Point (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) Takeshi Kitano has a way of making stillness into tension in his crime films. In the opening shot of Violent Cop, Kitano’s 1990 directorial debut, the camera holds on the...
