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ONE VOICE
(not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey):
As Christmas approaches releases slow but we have many to
endorse including Michael Powell's
Age of Consent on
Indicator Blu-ray. It
has great themes and Powell's effective direction - a
beautiful film. I enjoyed Giuliano Carnimeo's
Giallo
The Case of the Bloody Iris
on Shameless Blu-ray -
fans of the genre should strongly consider picking this up.
Indicator bring us more with Albert Finney's charming
Charlie Bubbles -
it was Finney's debut as director - an acutely observant
film about a married writer has an affair with his secretary
on Indicator Blu-ray. I
was surprised, but very happy, to see the
Neo-noir
Out of Time
received a Blu-ray
upgrade - I enjoy this film the more I see it - simple and
very tense. John Carroll Lynch's
Lucky follows the
spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist starring, in
his last feature role, Harry Dean Stanton on Eureka
Blu-ray.
The Puppet Masters
is on Blu-ray from Kino
and has elements of
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(both)
and
They Live - and
fans of those film will delight in the similarities - plus
it has the class of Donald Sutherland. Nu'ff said.
Georgy Girl touches
upon the 'Swinging Sixties' London life that the titular
character finds elusive - and another great Indicator
Blu-ray package.
Hallelujah the Hills
is a independent, free-spirited comedy from the 60's on
Blu-ray via Kino.
The Wrong Box is a
lovely crime-comedy with John Mills, Michael Caine, Dudley
Moore, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers and Ralph Richardson on
Indicator Blu-ray.
Twilight Time transfer
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
to Blu-ray in a
compromised appearance but the film has merit.
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closers" -
Blake (Alec Baldwin) from
Glengarry Glen Ross
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
BD - Directed by cult
favorite Don Weis and produced by Hollywood veteran Walter
Wanger, The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) is a charming
piece of exotica about a Persian barber (John Derek)
unexpectedly landed with the mission to escort a princess
(Elaine Stewart) to her wedding. Of course, the beautiful pair
spars and ultimately falls in love, but not before some mad
adventures involving bandits and Amazons and suggested
debauchery. Highlighted by a score from Dimitri Tiomkin.
Blu-ray Release Date: November,
2018
Lucky
BD - Lucky follows the spiritual journey of
Harry Dean Stanton s character Lucky, a cantankerous,
self-reliant 90 year old atheist, and the quirky characters that
inhabit the Arizona town where he lives. Having out-lived and
out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent
Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a
journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so
often unattainable: enlightenment.
Blu-ray Release Date: November 12th, 2018
Georgy Girl
BD - One of the defining
films of the 1960s, Silvio Narizzano s adaptation of Margaret
Foster's 1965 novel stars Lynn Redgrave in an Oscar-nominated
role as the put-upon teenager Georgy Parkin. Awkward and full of
self-doubt, Georgy finds herself forever just outside of the
'Swinging Sixties' London life she craves.
Blu-ray Release Date: November
26th, 2018
Charlie Bubbles
BD - Finney plays Charlie
Bubbles, a successful writer suffering a mid-life crisis,
who attempts to re-connect with his northern working-class roots
and estranged family. Based on a screenplay by Shelagh Delaney (A
Taste of Honey), the script clearly
references both her and Finney's personal experience of their
shared working-class origins (both were Salford natives), and
the consequences of achieving great success.
Blu-ray Release Date: November
26th, 2018
Out of Time
BD - Carl Franklin and actor
Denzel Washington team up again (following 1995's
Devil in a Blue Dress)
for the crime thriller Out of Time. Washington stars as Matt Lee
Whitlock, the well-respected chief of police in a quiet Florida
community. While in the process of getting a divorce from fellow
detective Alexandra (Eva Mendez), Matt engages in an affair with
his high school sweetheart Anne (Sanaa Lathan). Unfortunately,
Anne is married to the extremely jealous Chris (Dean Cain), a
former pro football player who works as a security guard. After
a major murder occurs in the community, Matt finds himself the
main suspect. With the help of his medical examiner pal Chae
(John Billingsley), Matt must solve the case before he is found
guilty himself. MVD Marquee Collection 'Special Edition'
Blu-ray Release date: October 30th,
2018
Age of Consent
BD - Based on Norman
Lindsay's controversial autobiographical 1935 novel, Age of
Consent is the story of an artist (James Mason), grown tired
of producing art for wealthy Americans, who moves to the wilds
of Australia s Great Barrier Reef where he meets Cora (Helen
Mirren), a teenage girl who inspires him and becomes his muse as
well as the object of his desire.
Blu-ray Release Date: November 26th, 2018
The Puppet Masters
BD - An alien spacecraft
sets down in rural Iowa, and top-secret government agents Andrew
Nivens (Donald Sutherland) and his son, Sam (Eric Thal), are
sent to investigate. Coming along is NASA biologist Mary Sefton
(Julie Warner), and together they make a startling discovery:
alien parasites capable of taking over the minds of human
beings. And the creatures are multiplying. The race is on for
the team to stop the invaders before they turn all of humanity
into zombie slaves. Blu-ray
Release Date: December 4th, 2018
Hallelujah the Hills
BD - An irreverent burst of
anarchic energy that wowed attendees of the 1963 New York Film
Festival, Hallelujah the Hills is a landmark film of the New
American Cinema, presented here in a new 2K restoration.
Directed with improvisatorial flair by Adolfas Mekas, a
co-founder of FilmbrCulture magazine with his brother Jonas
(Walden), Hallelujah the Hills follows two wildly
impulsive young men who are in love with the same woman (played
by two different actresses). A slapstick love letter to cinema,
this fiercely independent wonder laid the groundwork for all the
free-spirited filmmakers to follow.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 30th, 2018
The Wrong Box
BD - Two warring elderly
brothers and their respective heirs are determined that each
will outlive the other in an attempt to hold onto the family
fortune and will stop at nothing - even murder - to achieve
their goal. Bryan Forbes' riotous black comedy, based on the
1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, stars
some of the greatest talents of the day, including Peter
Sellers, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Hancock,
Ralph Richardson, Nanette Newman and John Mills.
Blu-ray Release Date: November
26th, 2018
The Case of the Bloody Iris
BD - Director Giuliano
Carnimeo avoids allowing the viewer to dwell on the gimmicky
nature of the storytelling by maintaining a snappy pace and
trotting out a vast array of eye-catching visual devices (zooms,
fish-eye lens shots, point-of-view camerawork) to keep the
viewer's eye dazzled throughout. The performances are limited by
the weak characterizations but Edwige Fenech is easy on the eyes
as the film's heroine and George Hilton makes a decent
square-jawed hero. Blu-ray
Release Date: November 18th, 2018
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