Night Tide (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended Writer-director Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (filmed in 1961, but not widely released until 1963) isn’t an easy film to adequately review.
October 13, 2013
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Highly Recommended Writer-director Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (filmed in 1961, but not widely released until 1963) isn’t an easy film to adequately review.
Recommended The Movie: From Ralph Bakshi, the man who brought Robert Crumb’s Fritz The Cat to animated form a year earlier, comes 1973’s bizarre counter culture animated feature, Heavy Traffic . Given that Fritz and its more explicit content became a huge box office hit when released, it probably won’t surprise too many to learn that Bakshi returns to that same adult landscape for this mix of …
Recommended “God, you’re a shit, you know that?” “Yes, and since you know it, what the hell are you doing here?” Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is indeed a shit.
Highly Recommended At Long Last Love (1975), unavailable for decades and regarded as one of the great cinematic calamities of the ’70s is, at long last, out on Blu-ray and available for reassessment. Ultimately, the picture doesn’t quite gel like it should, but neither is it anywhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest
Skip It Note: images do not reflect the contents of the Blowing Wild Blu-Ray. The Movie: Over the past couple of years, Olive Films has been the classic film lover’s best friend. They’ve already reissued several lesser-known but generally worthwhile films from the archives of Paramount and Republic, along with independent ventures such as the John Garfield boxing flick Body and Soul .
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Another surreal trip from Quentin Dupieux Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Surreal films, dogs Likes: Jack Plotnick, Quentin Dupieux Dislikes: Closed-minded audiences Hates: Boring old movies The Movie Quentin Dupieux’s 2010 English-language debut Rubber is a striking film, telling the story of a homicidal tire with psychic powers, on a killing spree, as an audience …
Recommended I always love a good concert video, and that’s what is delivered here on Blu-Ray with “Paul Anka Live in Switzerland.” The prolific Canadian singer/songwriter performs a number of his own songs (some which were hit records for himself and others which he wrote for other artists) as well as some inspired covers, with a full band at the AVO Session Basel in the town of Basel. The show …
Adam B. Vary surveys eight older films and one 2013 release that grapple with shameful time in U.S. history
Star Trek: The Next Generation? The Next Level It contains just three episodes (Encounter at Farpoint, the double-length pilot, plus Sins of the Father and The Inner Light), but this is a disc to check out, as it’s the first time these episodes have been seen in high definition