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21 Jul
2021 |
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| Adoption |
| Katalin Berek plays a 43-year-old widow who wants to have a child and who befriends a teenage girl running away from a troubled family background in Márta Mészáros's widely praised 1975 Hungarian drama. Slarek is unexpectedly captivated by the film on Second Run's newly released Blu-ray. |
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20 Jul
2021 |
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| The Big Fix |
| Richard Dreyfuss came off Jaws and Close Encounters a bona fide star. He went on to headline and co-produce The Big Fix, an appealing oddity about an idiosyncratic private eye taking on a very messy case. Camus reacquaints himself with this outsider of a movie... |
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18 Jul
2021 |
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15 Jul
2021 |
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| A quartet of Hollywood blockbusters on Indicator Blu-ray in October |
| Four Hollywood blockbusters from years past focussing on courage and heroism in the face of war and disaster are coming from Indicator in October, with John Wayne in Hellfighters, wartime actioner Midway, military biopic MacArthur, and submarine thriller Gray Lady Down. |
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14 Jul
2021 |
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14 Jul
2021 |
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13 Jul
2021 |
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| Eye of the Cat |
| A dastardly plan in which a carefree playboy teams up with an avaricious salon worker to fleece his sickly aunt of her fortune runs into a few feline problems in the underrated 1969 horror-thriller, Eye of the Cat. Slarek enjoys a pleasant surprise of a film on Indicator's recently released Blu-ray. |
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12 Jul
2021 |
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9 Jul
2021 |
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8 Jul
2021 |
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| The Nevers |
| There are few artists whose work Camus is driven to read/hear/watch as soon as possible. One of those select few created The Nevers for HBO. On the way to a review of the series, Camus muses on whether it’s now even possible to publicly atone for past misbehaviour… |
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8 Jul
2021 |
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6 Jul
2021 |
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5 Jul
2021 |
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| Hammer Volume Six: Night Shadows |
| Four more lesser-discussed film from Britain's Hammer Studios have been brought together by Indicator in Hammer Volume Six: Night Shadows, another superb box set – one of the best yet – that provided Slarek with two glorious weeks of viewing and reviewing. |
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4 Jul
2021 |
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| The Ascent |
| In his long-awaited second review for Outsider, SilverBlueSnow explores The Ascent, director Larisa Shepitko's riveting study of two pro-Soviet partisans charged with a special mission to gather food in the winter cold in WW2, released earlier this year as one of the Criterion Collection's UK Blu-ray releases. |
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3 Jul
2021 |
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| West 11 |
| Alfred Lynch plays Joe Beckett, a directionless and emotionally hollow young man who falls in with a middle-aged ex-military crook in West 11, a 1963 British social realist work from Michael Winner. Slarek is seduced by the characters and atmosphere of an intriguing film on StudioCanal's new Blu-ray release. |
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3 Jul
2021 |
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| Another Round [Druk] |
| With Thomas Vinterberg's masterful Another Round [Druk] finally making its way into UK cinemas, it seemed like the perfect time to repost Jerry Whyte's spot-on review of the film from last year's London Film Festival. |
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24 Jun
2021 |
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| Salaam Bombay! |
| Mira Nair’s groundbreaking first feature Salaam Bombay!, set and shot on the streets of the city, is released on Blu-ray by the BFI and is reviewed by Gary Couzens. |
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21 Jun
2021 |
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| Friendship's Death |
| Peter Wollen was a prominent film theorist. Friendship’s Death was his only solo film as writer and director, with an early lead role for Tilda Swinton as an extra-terrestrial robot in conversation with Bill Paterson’s journalist in a Middle Eastern war zone. Gary Couzens listens in. |
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20 Jun
2021 |
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| Piccadilly |
| A key late British silent, directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong and featuring an uncredited appearance from a young Charles Laughton, Piccadilly comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens pays a visit. |
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20 Jun
2021 |
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| The Hands of Orlac |
| Conrad Veidt plays a concert pianist whose irreparably damaged hands are replaced with those of a convicted murderer in Robert Wiene's fascinating and expressionistic and horror-tinged mystery-drama from 1924. Slarek absorbs the strong emotions and gets into an issue he has with the ending on the newly released Masters of Cinema Blu-ray. |
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10 Jun
2021 |
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| One Armed Boxer |
| After an illness-enforced dry spell, Slarek gets back into the reviewing saddle with an appreciation of one of the best of the first wave of 70s martial arts movies in Jimmy Wang Yu's action-packed One Armed Boxer on a recently released and damned fine Eureka Blu-ray. |
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28 May
2021 |
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| Columbia Noir #3 |
| It's late, it's long, but Slarek has finally completed his epic review of Indicator's latest, six-film box set of film noir titles from Columbia studios, another superb collection that includes some absolute gems, six excellent commentaries and thumping collection of first-rate special features. |
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24 May
2021 |
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| Maeve |
| Made in Belfast in 1981, Pat Murphy and John Davies’s film Maeve takes a specifically feminist look at the Irish Troubles. Reviewed by Gary Couzens on newly released BFI Blu-ray. |
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17 May
2021 |
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| Jungle Fever |
| An interracial romance is the catalyst for Spike Lee’s sprawling fifth feature Jungle Fever, released on Blu-ray for its thirtieth anniversary by the BFI, reviewed by Gary Couzens. |
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17 May
2021 |
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| Radio On |
| A very English road movie (London to Bristol), Christopher Petit’s debut feature Radio On soon became a cult movie largely due to its New Wave soundtrack. Now reissued on Blu-ray, is it still roadworthy after forty-two years? Gary Couzens finds out. |
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16 May
2021 |
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| Someone to Watch Over Me |
| Director Ridley Scott’s first four films were all visual powerhouses regardless of their commercial or critical performance. It was something of a surprise to hear his fifth film would be set in the present in New York with a ‘standard’ plot. Camus watches over Someone To Watch Over Me… |
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