Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill remain Seijun Suzuki's best-known films amongst western audiences, although I'm not sure about his native Japanese audience. This was partly due to filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino singing his praises, but also because both films were released as Criterion DVDs early on, which were essentially a port … Continue reading Tokyo Drifter – Blu-Ray Review
It's always interesting to see what happens when films get remade over and over again. A Star is Born was first made in 1937, then again in 1954, 1976 and more recently as a Bollywood musical. It's a rags to riches tale for the female protagonist, and a tragedy for the male protagonist who discovers her … Continue reading A Star is Born (2018) – Blu-Ray Review
The Fritz Lang film Human Desire was a remake of Jean Renoir’s La Bête Humaine, and based on the Emile Zola novel of the same name. It’s one of his 1950s films, staring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, who both starred the year before in The Big Heat. That’s the better film, but Human Desire … Continue reading Human Desire – Blu-Ray Review
Climax is the latest film from Gaspar Noé, who in the last 20 years has carved his place as one of the most audacious filmmakers in world cinema. He divides people, much like Lars Von Trier: you either love him or hate him, or you hate one film and love another, and so on. Everybody … Continue reading Climax – Blu-Ray Review
The Boys in the Band remains a undeniably important film, in the sense that it was one of the first mainstream American movies to tackle a story where homosexuality is a central element head on. For anybody who hasn’t seen The Celluloid Closet, Hollywood cinema hid gay characters or subject matter under various guises—innuendo or … Continue reading The Boys in the Band – Blu-Ray Review
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