The Corruption of Chris Miller is a Spanish oddity from noted director Juan Antonio Bardem, who is best known for his Hitchcockian neo-realist opus, Death of a Cyclist. It's also one of the last films to star Jean Seberg and you can see on her face the toll that the FBI investigation and smear job … Continue reading The Corruption of Chris Miller – Blu-Ray Review
A Face in the Crowd is perhaps Elia Kazan's greatest work, and it is most certainly his most prophetic. The awful truth about Kazan is that he became a better director after he named names in the HUAC witch-hunt. He initially pleaded the Fifth Amendment, but in his second testimony he sang—and he also became … Continue reading A Face in the Crowd – Blu-Ray Review
Au Hasard Balthazar comes at the tail end of Robert Bresson's black and white films (his last would be Mouchette), which are slightly unfairly more revered by some than his later colour films. Bresson's move to colour remains controversial: some couldn't believe this auteur could even make a film in colour! Au Hasard Balthazar is one of his … Continue reading Au Hasard Balthazar – Blu-Ray Review
Of course it’s the Mel Brooks movie, and sadly it’s his penultimate feature as writer/director. It came out to capitalise on the success of 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. And unsurprisingly, it’s a parody of the source material, with the story pretty much the same. Except that its intentionally funny. It doesn’t reach the … Continue reading Robin Hood: Men In Tights – Blu-Ray Review
Daniel is a Sidney Lumet film, based on a book by E.L Doctorow (The Book of Daniel), which is in turn loosely based on the Rosenberg Trial. The name of the couple has changed here to Isaacson, and the story focuses on their son Daniel, contrasting his activism in the 1960s and their involvement with … Continue reading Daniel – DVD Review
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