The Forgiveness of Blood: The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
October 22, 2012
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Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Robert Aldrich’s 1962 classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has a reputation that precedes it, for better and worse.
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review. This might get me branded as some kind of sicko, but for a movie that apparently was almost rated NC-17, Chained is rather tame, at least in terms of onscreen gore. Lots of terrible things happen in the movie, but director Jennifer Lynch ( Boxing Helena …
Rent It The Film: The details of Edgar Allan Poe’s death are vague and bizarre: muttering names of unknown people, wearing clothes that weren’t his, and exhibiting grave distress without the ability to coherently explain why, a lot’s left to interpretation about what led up to the brooding poet’s demise on the streets of Baltimore. So, naturally, in an era where Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy …