Great Depression Era Social Drama is Pretty Okay
DIRECTED BY FRANK BROZAGE/1931
STREET DATE: DECEMBER 13, 2016/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Based on a nov...
Ushering In The New Year With New Year's-Themed Classic Movies
Keeping with tradition, or its semblance, my year end list will once again forgo comment on the p...
A Slightly Obsessed Halloween Special!
Yet another Halloween season is fast upon us, the rotting trees, mournful processions, and hangman's posts infusing the ...
A Home Video Vacation With 14 Classics Of Japanese Cinema
As an old stick-in-the-mud once observed: “I've been enough places and seen enough things to know tha...
Chandu Brings The Tricks, Lugosi Brings The Magic
DIRECTED BY: WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES & MARCEL VARNEL/1932
STREET DATE: AUGUST 23, 2016/KINO LORBER
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Within Our Gates: A Counter-History Through A Counter-Cinema
STREET DATE: July 26, 2016/KINO LORBER
Arriving as a 5-disc series which includes more than 20 ...
"Masterpiece" Documentary is a Turgid March of Nazi Propaganda
#24: Triumph of the Will
Director: Leni Riefenstahl/German/1935
Fascism is boring. I suspect...
Our Look At The 1932 Best Oscar Winner And Other Matters Costume Drama-ry
DIRECTOR: FRANK LLOYD/1933
The winner for “Outstanding Production” of the 1932/193...
A Fine Wellesian Madness
DIRECTOR: Orson Welles/1938
2015 marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of George Orson Welles and this year’s Wisconsin Film Fes...
Jean Vigo's Masterpiece Drifts Into Cinema Immortality
DIRECTED BY JEAN VIGO/FRENCH/1934
In an effort to fill in gaps in our personal filmographies, I’ve jo...
