Boat People was directed by Ann Hui, and is considered one of the key films of the Hong Kong new wave of the 1970s-1980s—Wong Kar-wai is the most notable director in this movement. Run Towards the Angry Sea is the translation of film’s original Chinese title, with Boat People being tacked on later to cater … Continue reading Boat People – Blu-Ray Review
To Sleep So As to Dream was the first film from Kaizo Hayashi, and was made in the 1980s—which some historians of Japanese cinema call a “lost decade.” That’s a bizarre thing to say, given that you had some great Kurosawa movies, Akira and the start of Studio Ghibli, to name just a few obvious … Continue reading To Sleep So As To Dream – Blu-Ray Review
A Time for Dying is the final dramatic film from Budd Boetticher, who for most of the 1960s was working on a documentary about his friend, the bullfighter Carlos Arruza. He did work on the usual western television shows of the day as a director for hire to pay the bills, and probably to help fund … Continue reading A Time for Dying – Blu-Ray Review
Mad Dog Morgan is a film that is probably more “important” than it is “good,” because it was one of the first Australian films to reach an international audience in the early days of the Australian film industry. It straddles the line between the Ozploitation films that were then just coming out and the early Australian … Continue reading Mad Dog Morgan – Blu-Ray Review
Louis Wain was a genius painter who made wild psychedelic paintings of anthropomorphic cats. He was also deeply mentally ill—was it schizophrenia, or undiagnosed autism? Nobody knows for sure. He did live a fairly eventful life, so it’s natural that a film would be made about him eventually. And here we are, with The Electrical Life … Continue reading The Electrical Life of Louis Wain – Blu-Ray Review
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