Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by Ren Clair who co-wrote the screenplay with Armand Salacrou, 1950’s Beauty Of The Devil (which was released in other territories, including the United States, as The Beauty And The Devil so as to not promote whatever attractive qualities the Lord Of Hell might have!) is essentially a retelling of Faust .
Highly Recommended Death Hunt (1981) was the last “serious” film of star Charles Bronson. The reliable supporting actor-turned-Euro-star found mainstream success in the U.S. with Death Wish (1974), then for the next several years mostly appeared in genre action-thrillers similar to those of box office rival Clint Eastwood
Rent It Perhaps spurred on by the success of the hit Discovery Channel program “Deadliest Catch” (which makes an “appearance” here), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel climbed on board a New England fishing boat to film Leviathan , a nearly wordless 90-minute documentary. Captured on GoPro cameras mounted on sticks, the movie has no traditional narrative, no interviews, no obvious …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1961, La Notte follows a wealthy married couple, wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, an author named Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), as they travel around their home city of Milan.
DVD Talk Collector Series Mama’s Family: The Complete Collection is the single best vintage television DVD release of the year. I love writing that. Good Lord the “Joe Hamilton” cuts are finally here! StarVista Entertainment and TimeLife, through Warner Brothers, have released Mama’s Family: The Complete Collection , a 7-volume, 24-disc, 130-episode collection of the cult sitcom’s entire run …
Highly Recommended First released in Great Britain as Expos and in the United States as Trauma , the now-titled House on Straw Hill (1976) is an extremely minor, muddled erotic thriller with slight horror movie elements, and notable only as the lone British film on the original list of “Video Nasties” compiled by the Department of Public Prosecution. Severin Films’ new Blu-ray presents it …
Recommended The Movie: For as much I have generally railed against the work of Melissa McCarthy, and think that in between her television work in Mike & Molly and her more recent movie work in Identity Thief , I just do not get or understand the reason for her success, little more than everyone gets a laugh out of watching the big girl fall down. But she comes back to one of the causes of her …
Recommended A surprisingly risqu sex farce-musical starring Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, and Corrine Calvet, On the Riveria (1951) was the second and at times word-for-word remake of Folies Berg re de Paris (1935), which starred Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, and Ann Sothern in the same parts. The first remake, made in-between, was That Night in Rio (1941), with Don Ameche, Alice Faye, and Carmen …
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional material provided by The Cohen Media Group and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m prepared to accept that smart, crowd-pleasing French filmmaker Fran ois Ozon ( 8 Women , Swimming Pool ), whose work I’ve often enjoyed and appreciated, is middlebrow, a skilled and intelligent writer/director whose …