THIS WEEK's RELEASES: Fred Zinnemann 4K UHD, Jacques Rivette, Sidney Lumet, Fritz Lang noir, Yasujiro Ozu Double Feature, Anthony Mann, early Francis Ford Coppola, Alex Proyas 4K UHD, León Klimovsky monsters, Nancy Savoca, Pre-Code Fu Manchu, obsessive–compulsive TV detective, French Vigilante trifecta, Yukio Noda...
NEW CALENDAR UPDATES (LINKED HERE!) Peckinpah 4K UHD, Jean-Pierre Melville 4K UHD, Francis Ford Coppola X 2 BD and one 4K UHD, Anthony Mann, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann - Audrey, Michael Curtiz X 2, Sean Penn directs, Michael Caine - Jack the Ripper, Paul Thomas Anderson, Frank Borzage, Gary Sinise directs, Martin Ritt - Newman / Poitier, Michael Apted, my favorite Trần Anh Hùng, Shunji Iwai, Matteo Garrone, Arthur Ripley noir, Sergio Martino 4K UHD, Frank Tuttle - Lake / Tone, Bong Joon-ho 4K UHD, more detective Monk, Fabio Salerno, new Wim Wenders, Raoul Walsh - Wright / Mitchum, Ladd / Lake in Saigon, Alejandro Jodorowsky 4K UHD, Powell - Pressburger, new and old Ken Loach, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Sturges 4K UHD Steelbook, 3-ring vampire, Paul Schrader 4K UHD, Ernst Lubitsch, Polanski - Jack 4K UHD, Edgar Reitz, Orson Welles - Shakespeare, Ken Russell, Joe Dante 4K UHD, Peter Strickland box, Scorsese Gold 4K UHD boxset, Kathryn Bigelow 4K UHD, Jesús Franco, Glauber Rocha Criterion treatment, Ralph Nelson - Candy Bergman 4K UHD, Brian De Palma 4K UHD in UK, Kaige Chen 4K UHD, Kinji Fukasaku sci-fi, Cruise? Criterion? 4K UHD?, Mexican 50's adventure, more 60's Japanese Tai Katô!, Hal Ashby, François Truffaut, Claude Berri, Dick Tracy RKO...
THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS: most days spent on calendar update; Fritz Lang - Joan Bennett noir, Edgar Ulmer serial killer, a "roughie" western......
Enjoy,
Gary

RELEASES the WEEK of May 6th, 2024 (Recommended titles have "**")

Altered Perceptions [Blu-ray] (Jorge Ameer, 2023) Allied Vaughn
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COMMENTS: In a ripped-from-the headlines post-apocalyptic world, an intergalactic prophet attempts to warn humans about the present and their impending doom.
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**Jacques Rivette's "L'amour fou"** Blu-ray - Bulle Ogier / Jean-Pierre Kalfon @FilmsRadiance
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COMMENTS: Jacques Rivette's L'amour fou is a seminal part of the French New Wave - made two years before his 12+ hour opus Out 1 - also with Bulle Ogier (Celine and Julie Go Boating.) The art-reality relationship in Rivette's L'amour fou comes across organically with the hand-held theater sequences appearing informal, improvised and vérité. This mirrors the marital disintegration - and, no doubt, the shots with mirrors are intentional - sometimes imbuing self reflection, other times spying / distrust. DVDBeaver hosted Order of the Exile - a website about Jacques Rivette and you can read Peter Lloyd's article "Jacques Rivette and L'amour fou", HERE. I am thrilled to have such a pure example of auteur cinema on Radiance Blu-ray - looking gorgeous - recovered from the original celluloid elements damaged by fire. The package includes a feature length documentary, visual essay, interviews, booklet etc. A cinephile must-own.
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**The Crow [4K UHD Blu-ray]** (Alex Proyas, 1994) Paramount
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COMMENTS: The modern-gothic original that entranced audiences and critics alike, THE CROW tells the tale of a young musician brutally murdered alongside his beloved fiancée, only to rise from the grave by a mysterious crow. Seeking revenge, he battles a criminal underground that must answer for their crimes, in this supernatural superhero movie from director by Alex Proyas (DARK CITY), adapted from the comic book series, and starring Brandon Lee in his final, tragic performance.
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**Devil's Doorway** [Blu-ray] (Anthony Mann, 1950) Warner Archive
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COMMENTS: Shoshone tribesman and Civil War hero Lance Poole (Robert Taylor) returns home with a Congressional Medal of Honor on his chest and a saddlebag full of dreams about prospering as a cattleman on his family's land. But Native Americans have no citizenship, no property rights. The courts, despite the efforts of Lane's attorney (Paula Raymond) offer no remedy. Lance and his people must fight to keep their land. Devil's Doorway, the first of the dozen or so groundbreaking Westerns by auteur filmmaker Anthony Mann (The Naked Spur) is one of the earliest films sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans, standing alongside the same year's Broken Arrow. Perhaps not coincidentally, Lane Poole's tribal name is Broken Lance.
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**León Klimovsky's "Dr. Jekyll and The Werewolf"** Blu-ray - Paul Naschy / Shirley Corrigan @MondoMacabroUSA
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COMMENTS: This was Paul Naschy's second film project with director Leon Klimovsky, following their very successful The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (also available in 4K UHD). It has a lot of the same appeal although it also has the feel that it was produced fairly quickly with a few cut corners. Naschy, who wrote the screenplays for most of his films, is great, as is abused beauty Shirley Corrigan and stalwart Jack Taylor. Hey - the more I watch these Werewolf / Count Waldemar Daninsky (known in Spain as El Hombre Lobo) cycle of films (Fury of the Wolfman, Night of the Werewolf etc.) - the more I look forward to the next one. It sounds like Mondo Macabro's 4K UHD release tried their best to get the 'Export version' in superior quality but it wasn't meant to be. But we do get the Spanish version in 2160P resolution, commentary, interviews, and booklet. Hopefully it won't be long till fans, that missed this package, can get their hands on the Blu-ray.
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**Nancy Savoca's "Dogfight"** Blu-ray - River Phoenix / Lili Taylor @Criterion
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COMMENTS: Nancy Savoca's Dogfight is very honest with plenty of politically incorrect dialogue and situations including less-comfortable cruelty. The romance evolution is fairly subtle and doesn't go 'full cloying'. I also liked the 60's milieu - confident but oblivious teenagers going to war, kudos to Lili Taylor's 'Rose' character's self esteem. Taylor is considered one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema and I feel as if Dogfight has been forgotten and never was a part of the conversation when it actually developed a cult-following and they also made a musical of it! So a cool, if odd, choice for Criterion to bring to their Blu-ray catalogue. Definitely a 'rewatchable'. You will be surprised how much you like Dogfight.
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**Fred Zinnemann's "High Noon" 4K UHD** - Gary Cooper / Grace Kelly @KinoLorber
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COMMENTS: Fred Zinnemann's "High Noon" is one of the most influential westerns ever made. It has a strong theme of man's conflict of conscience - mercenary attitudes than lean close to cowardice. Many famous actors, regretfully, declined the role of Will Kane - John Wayne thinking Foreman's story was an obvious allegory against blacklisting - rejected it. Stanley Kramer offered it to Gregory Peck, who thought it was too similar to his role of aging gunfighter Jimmy Ringo in 1950's The Gunfighter. Also Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Charlton Heston also declined playing Will Kane. I loved economic pace... and so many of the supporting cast; Katy Jurado (Broken Lance,) Lloyd Bridges (perhaps the opposite of his last role of Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld,) Otto Kruger as the feeling Judge, Lon Chaney Jr. as the town's former marshal, Harry Morgan as Sam Fuller, Lee Van Cleef as silent Jack Colby, Sheb Wooley etc. and of course Grace Kelly as devout Quaker and pacifist Amy Fowler. "High Noon" exports the idea of what a man should be - fearlessly going against the crowd - when they are making self serving, short term, decisions. Unassisted by the town, after facing the consequences of his noble decision, Will throws his Marshal's star in the dirt and speechlessly leaves with his brave bride. God Damn. Kino's 4K UHD with the video upgrade and two new commentaries gets our highest recommendation.
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Katernica [Blu-ray] (James Edward Newton, 2023) Rising Sun Media
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COMMENTS: An ambitious drama student, her actor sister, and a washed-up television director make an unlikely team of misfits when together they become caught up in a surreal nightmare journey after discovering and reading the manuscript of a legendary cursed play. Katernica was made for £1000 and is the second outstanding micro-budgeted feature film from the director of Black Lizard Tales.
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Mansion of the Doomed [Blu-ray] (Michael Pataki, 1976) RB UK 101 Films
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COMMENTS: Seized and confiscated under the Obscene Publications Act during the British video nasty panic of the 1980s, Mansion of the Doomed (aka The Eyes of Doctor Chaney & House of Blood and known variously as The Terror of Doctor Chaney and Massacre Mansion in the UK), was the first horror film from legendary producer Charles Band’s Full Moon Features and is presented here in all its grubby uncut glory. Richard Basehart (Being There, TV’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) stars as the maniacal Dr. Leonard Chaney, a brilliant surgeon who compulsively kidnaps people and rips out their eyeballs, dumping their bleeding bodies into a filthy basement cage. His masterplan? To transplant these ill-gotten orbs into the skull of his daughter, who herself was blinded in a tragic accident years before.
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**The Mask of Fu Manchu** [Blu-ray] (Charles Brabin, 1932) Warner Archive
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COMMENTS: Boris Karloff takes one his most celebrated cinematics turn as the diabolical fiend Dr. Fu Manchu, and Myrna Loy plays his exotic daughter in this 1932 cult horror classic. This time, the evil Fu Manchu patiently awaits the discovery of Genghis Khan's tomb. For he is certain that possession of Khan's mask and sword will enable him to rule the East and lead it to victory over the hated Western world. When British scientists in the Gobi Desert discover the tomb, Fu captures and tortures them in his elaborate Torture Garden, hoping they will take him to the treasure he craves. But an unexpected traitor has other plans for the doctor. Based on Sax Rohmer's original story The Mask of Fu Manchu is fast moving and humorous (Halliwell's Film Guide) and full of pre-code suspenseful horror. This restored Blu-ray presentation features the film in its uncut version, as first released to theaters in 1932.
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Monk: The Complete Sixth Season [Blu-ray]- Kino
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COMMENTS: Get even more obsessed with TV’s funniest and quirkiest detective, Monk, with all 16 episodes of the smash-hit sixth season on Blu-ray! The terrific Tony Shalhoub reprises his award-winning role as the brilliant but phobia-laden detective Adrian Monk, who never lets his obsessive-compulsive disorder stop him from solving a crime in the most ingenious way imaginable! Dropping the clues this season are a roster of red-hot guest stars including Dan Castellaneta, Snoop Dogg, Scott Glenn, John Hawkes, Angela Kinsey, David Koechner, Sharon Lawrence, Howie Mandel, Larry Miller, Alfred Molina, Sarah Silverman, Peter Stormare and many more. Take a tip from an insider: you’ll be “committed” to this compulsively watchable detective series!
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**Night Falls on Manhattan** [Blu-ray] (Sidney Lumet, 1996) Arrow US
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COMMENTS: In a career that includes Oscar-nominated masterpieces such as Serpico, Prince of the City and The Verdict, director Sidney Lumet has cross-examined the fine line between those who enforce the law and those who exploit it, both in the courtroom and on the streets. Adapting a novel by former NYPD officer Robert Daley (Year of the Dragon), Lumet once again exposes the corrupt underbelly of the city that never sleeps in Night Falls on Manhattan. Sean Casey (Andy Garcia) is an assistant district attorney and a rising star in the New York City legal system. He is forced into a tough position when his ambitious boss, seeking re-election, asks Sean to prosecute a drug dealer caught by two NYPD detectives under controversial circumstances – one of whom happens to be Sean’s father (Ian Holm). As Sean gets closer to the truth in the case, what he uncovers may break his faith in the legal system, threaten his promising career and tear his family apart.
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Night Swim [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Bryce McGuire, 2024) Mediumrare UK
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COMMENTS: The producers of M3GAN high dive into the deep end of horror with the supernatural thriller, Night Swim. Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) stars as a former major league baseball player, forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his wife (Oscar nominee Kerry Condon) and their two children. The new home comes complete with a backyard swimming pool, but a deep secret surfaces and unleashes a malevolent force that will drag the family into the inescapable depths of terror.
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**The Rain People** [Blu-ray] (Francis Ford Coppola, 1969) Warner Archive
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COMMENTS: Unsure of herself, months pregnant and feeling trapped, Natalie Ravenna leaves her sleeping husband a note and drives away from her Long Island home one rainy morning to find herself. Natalie is the heroine of Francis Ford Coppola's intensely moving drama, The Rain People. Ahead of its time from both its filmmaking and feminist points of view, the film took Coppola and his eight-vehicle crew through eighteen states, lending this poignant tale a realistic, rootless tone. On board were three actors who brought a searing truth to the project: Shirley Knight as Natalie, and future stars of The Godfather James Caan and Robert Duvall as the lonely men who bring tenderness and tragedy Natalie's way. What they and Coppola brought our way is a movie that remains powerful, touching and relevant decades after its production.
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Sabotage [Blu-ray] (Tibor Takács, 1996) MVD
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COMMENTS: After years of recovery, Bishop thought he escaped the Black Ops and began a successful new life as a bodyguard to the rich and famous. He was the best, with skills most men died learning. But his past caught up with him. His clients began to die violently, at the same shadowy hand that conspired against his Black Op unit. Now he must go own one last mission to destroy the faceless men that run an army that doesn’t exist in this “underrated gem” (The Action Elite) from director Tibor Takács (The Gate) co-starring Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Tony Todd (Candyman) and Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves).
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**Fritz Lang's "Secret Beyond the Door"** Blu-ray - Joan Bennett @KinoLorber
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COMMENTS: Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door is a 'Freudian film noir' cum 'psychological thriller' that echoes Hitchcock's Rebecca and the French folktale of Bluebeard. It's a, far-fetched, slow build where Celia (Joan Bennett) succumbs to a whirlwind romance with a mysterious architect named Mark (Michael Redgrave)... and damning truths are slowly revealed. Secret Beyond the Door... is one of the most atmospheric and shadowy dark cinema yarns with magnificent cinematography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter) showcasing curious silhouettes, foggy forests and dimly lit hallways. At the height of her camera appeal, Joan Bennett has multiple attractive outfits allowing posing flirtations while her character embraces serious suspicions about her recent marriage. Flashbacks, a fantasy courtroom, a wealthy heiress, murderous history and a compulsive husband spell Noir delight. The Kino Blu-ray has a 4K scan and new commentary. Essential for devotees.
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**Seeing Red: 3 French Vigilante Thrillers** [Blu-ray] (Street of the Damned, Black List, Shot Pattern) Fun City Editions
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COMMENTS: A Paris flea market vendor (Gérard Lanvin) is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train in Jean-Claude Missiaen's Shot Pattern (Tir Groupé, 1982). As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation. This lean, intelligently-crafted thriller packs an emotional punch, largely due to Lanvin's superlative performance, for which he received a César Award nomination for Best Actor.
American crime writer David Goodis' novels have been adapted into numerous films, including Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, Delmer Daves' Dark Passage and Jacques Tourneur's Nightfall. For Street of the Damned (Rue Barbare, 1984), Gilles Béhat transposes Goodis' Street of the Lost from 1950s Philadelphia to a desolate, almost post-apocalyptic Paris suburb. There, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet (Bernard Giraudeau), who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons...and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes. Resembling a dark, offbeat comic book, Street of the Damned evokes films like Streets of Fire and Mad Max.
Three teenage Parisian punks are duped by a crime syndicate into committing a bank robbery that will distract the authorities while the seasoned crooks hijack an armored truck across town in Alain Bonnot's Black List (Liste Noire, 1984). Disaster ensues and two of the youngsters are killed, including the estranged daughter of widowed auto repair shop owner Jeanne Dufour (Annie Girardot). A grieving Jeanne ignores her own fear, as well as the law, and sets out to eliminate all of those responsible for her daughter's death. Groundbreaking in its portrayal of a female vigilante, the film is stylish and violent and features a powerhouse performance from Girardot as a woman who has passed the breaking point.
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She Is Conann [Blu-ray] (Bertrand Mandico, 2023) Altered Innocence
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COMMENTS: In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico in his third feature epic. Six lives, six eras, and six deaths mark Conann's poetic journey through different incarnations and lesbian loves. Guiding Conann through her many epic lives is Elina Löwensohn (Amateur, Let the Corpses Tan) as Rainer, a Cerberus of many otherworldly dimensions whose paparazzi camera sees all. The perversity of The Wild Boys and the hero's journey of After Blue (Dirty Paradise) come together in this even greater handmade homage as Mandico ropes in influences as lush as Fellini Satyricon, The Night Porter, The Hunger, and Fassbinder's entire oeuvre to craft a moving portrait of a warrior trying to find her place while outside of space, time, and meaning. This official selection of Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Fantastic Fest, and Sitges "thrives on its own bizarre extravagance as it pushes the limits of substance and style" (Collider).
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**A Story Of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films By Yasujiro Ozu** [Blu-ray] - Criterion
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COMMENTS: In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and their son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. Together, the films offer a unique glimpse into the evolution of one of cinema’s greatest directors. A Story of Floating Weeds finds Ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression; Floating Weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness of everyday life.
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs [Blu-ray] (Yukio Noda, 1974) Cauldrom Films
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COMMENTS: When renegade cop Rie (played by top Toei starlet Miku Sugimoto -- Girl Boss: Escape from Reform School) goes too far in bringing justice to untouchable bigwigs, only a dangerous mission to rescue a politician's daughter will keep her out of jail for good. She readily takes on the task, only to find it more complicated and deadly than she suspected. After a relentless pursuit and run-ins with despicable yakuza thugs, Rei finds herself a target of a wider criminal conspiracy the outcome of which will leave almost no one alive. Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs is a prime example of the "pinky violence" series of exploitation films that were made at Toei Studios in the early to mid-1970s. Though a short-lived genre, several true cult classics were made, of which Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs is one of the best and most influential. Based on an infamous adult manga series, this film is a delirious riot of action, sleaze, and outrageous style directed by genre master Yukio Noda (Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon). Neon Eagle Video delivers Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs to it's worldwide Blu-ray debut from a gorgeous new blood-splattered 4K restoration!
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REVIEWS / COMPARISONS:

**Fritz Lang's "Secret Beyond the Door"** Blu-ray - Joan Bennett @KinoLorber
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COMMENTS: Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door is a 'Freudian film noir' cum 'psychological thriller' that echoes Hitchcock's Rebecca and the French folktale of Bluebeard. It's a, far-fetched, slow build where Celia (Joan Bennett) succumbs to a whirlwind romance with a mysterious architect named Mark (Michael Redgrave)... and damning truths are slowly revealed. Secret Beyond the Door... is one of the most atmospheric and shadowy dark cinema yarns with magnificent cinematography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter) showcasing curious silhouettes, foggy forests and dimly lit hallways. At the height of her camera appeal, Joan Bennett has multiple attractive outfits allowing posing flirtations while her character embraces serious suspicions about her recent marriage. Flashbacks, a fantasy courtroom, a wealthy heiress, murderous history and a compulsive husband spell Noir delight. The Kino Blu-ray has a 4K scan and new commentary. Essential for devotees.
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**Edgar G. Ulmer's "Bluebeard"** Blu-ray - John Carradine / Jean Parker @KinoLorber
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COMMENTS: Edgar G. Ulmer's Bluebeard is based on the famous French tale 'Barbe bleue' - about a serial killer of women and one who escapes his clutches. We recently reviewed the 1972 version on Blu-ray with Richard Burton HERE. Ulmer's Bluebeard is another example of the director's ability to do a lot on s tiny budget. There are themes of corruption, artists creation process, psychological aspects, obsession, etc. and it has a strong performance by John Carradine. The period aspects are exported effectively. It's quite a good, almost poetic, film if hampered by the image quality. This 4K scan may be the best we ever get and the Kino Blu-ray has two very revealing commentaries. If you can get over the damage-laden presentation - you will probably be rewarded. Recommended!
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Lee Frost's "Hot Spur" Blu-ray - Virginia Gordon / James Arena @SeverinFilms
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COMMENTS: Lee Frost's Hot Spur is a "roughie" - an exploitation feature film combining sex with violence. There are multiple sexual assaults (a saloon girl, a ranch owner's wife and the Mexican stable-boy's sister), in bondage, and repeated flashbacks to 'the sister' - plus shotgun blasts to the face etc.. Hot Spur is also considered a 'western' taking place in 1869 - with horses and cowboys but there isn't much doubt in the exploitation intent. Revenge is a key theme, along with a subtext of racism. The performance of Virginia Gordon (Francis Ford Coppola's Tonight for Sure) is the lone standout. I was really shaking my head through most of it (poor camerawork and editing), as well as being disgusted - but I see the appeal for some when I listened to the commentary. While not by cup-of-tea, I haven't been exposed to a lot of this niche genre. Overall my appreciation of "roughies" is... lacking. Perhaps I will give the, supposedly superior effort, The Scavengers a spin - also by Lee Frost. Boutique label Severin Films have brought another cult film to Blu-ray and it's stacked with a commentary, and more. The image quality is surprisingly strong and Hot Spur's mere existence is a historical cinema curiosity. To each his own.
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DVDBeaver Newsletter for the Week of May 6th, 2024