Claude Chabrol was a hack, but a knowing hack—he was the most prolific of all the major French New Wave directors, making an average of at least one feature film every year from 1958 to 2010. The first year he didn't make a film was 1979, and Chabrol only missed a handful of years from … Continue reading Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol – Blu-Ray Review
This release consists of a wonderful collection of anti-drug educational films made from the late '60s into the early '70s, most centred around LSD. The release includes 11 films, plus an edited mix of four of the films that keeps the most amusing bits while editing out some of the shorts’ duller moments. The shorts … Continue reading The Scare Film Archives Vol.1 – Drug Stories – Blu-Ray Review
12 Monkeys is Terry Gilliam's most commercially successful film by sheer box-office numbers... although Time Bandits turned a bigger profit due to its low budget and being a surprise blockbuster hit in the United States. It was a project that came to Gilliam from Universal and the screenwriter couple David and Janet Peoples - David … Continue reading 12 Monkeys – UHD Review
John McNaughton created one of the most important independent films of the 1980s with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer—although for the most part audiences couldn’t see it until 1990, outside of the festival circuit and furtively distributed copies. McNaughton was inspired by an American TV special on 20/20 about Henry Lee Lucas, and the resulting film uses … Continue reading Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer – Blu-Ray Review
This 1954 BBC adaptation of the dystopian classic 1984 by everybody's favourite self-described "Tory Anarchist," George Orwell, was the novel’s first serious adaptation. Previously it had been adapted for CBS's Studio One, and the result was abysmal—it was kind of like those budget best-of CDs where it has one or two hits from the artist … Continue reading Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) – Blu-Ray Review
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