Thursday, July 31, 2014

Remembering Dick Smith (1922-2014)

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Dick Smith - the cinema's most important makeup artist since the immortal Lon Chaney - has passed away at the age of 92, leaving be...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Per Mario

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Proust Questionnaire

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What is your idea of perfect happiness? Those moments when I feel outside of time - when I'm engrossed in reading a book, watching a ...

On UNDER THE SKIN (2013)

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This new science fiction film from the UK was way oversold to me. There is quality here, a very watchable, occasionally engrossing tec...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Soledad Miranda: Born 71 Years Ago Today

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Monday, July 07, 2014

Scorsese's NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Documentary

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New York Review of Books editor Robert B. Silvers in his office, as seen in THE 50 YEAR OLD ARGUMENT. I got to see Martin Scorsese and ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

The Hell of It

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In today's mail, I received a copy of Culture Factory USA's limited edition high-definition CD of Paul Williams' soundtrack for ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

THE RED HOUSE (1947)

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Caught Delmer Daves' THE RED HOUSE late last night on Hulu Plus, almost in the spirit of emergency after failing to find anything else...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Some VIDEO WATCHDOG (P)updates

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I neglected to mention that, on June 15, VIDEO WATCHDOG marked the 24th anniversary of the printing and delivery of its very first issue...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

DOCTOR ORLOFF'S MONSTER: From Germany, In English

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Just watched the new German release of DR. ORLOFF'S MONSTER (1964) called Die Lebenden Leichen des Doktor Jekyll ("The Living C...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Farewell, Mater Tenebrarum

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Word reaches us today of the passing of the striking Romanian actress Veronica Lazar, at the age of 75. Lazar, who settled in Rome and wa...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Delphine Seyrig's Feminist Acting Documentary

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Barbara Steele, among the interviewees in Delphine Seyrig's SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI . Finally caught up today with a film I've l...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 177

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The next issue of VIDEO WATCHDOG - now at the printer - will be a Eurocrime special with extensive coverage of the poliziotteschi ( po-le...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

VW 177 Nearing Completion

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Donna, John and I are putting the finishing touches on VIDEO WATCHDOG 177, which is going to be a special Italian Crime issue consisting o...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

10 Cultish Reasons to Vacation with MR. HOBBS

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Twilight Time, the extra-mile label that issues limited pressings of major studio films on Blu-ray with isolated music tracks, recently...
Monday, May 05, 2014

He Introduced Spider-Man to the World

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RIP Dick Ayers , the great Silver Age pencil and ink man who contributed most importantly to the Marvel Age of Comics, who has passed aw...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Quick Look: SORCERER on Blu-ray

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Still an editing nightmare that spends its first hour elliptically globe-hopping to introduce four losers we never get to know, William ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

My First Animated Skeleton

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This bizarre artwork is a detail from the dust jacket of the US hardcover edition of Ngaio Marsh's 1949 mystery novel A WREATH FOR...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Some Forbidden Swedish Cinema

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An instance of PERFORMANCE-like decadence from Mai Zetterling's NIGHT GAMES. Last night I treated myself to an evening of forbidden...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Catching Up With Five Mean Years

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Last week, I decided to fill a gap in my Greil Marcus collection by acquiring his book THE DOORS : A LIFETIME OF LISTENING TO FIVE MEAN...