It’s a remake of a remake—a reimagining of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai in the American West, this time with a more diverse cast in the original (which had been all-white, other than the part-Mongolian actor Yul Brynner). Denzel Washington steps into what was Yul Brynner’s role under a different name, having previously worked with Fuqua via … Continue reading The Magnificent Seven (2016) – Blu-Ray Review
George Lucas a few years before changing cinema forever with the release of Star Wars he made his love letter to his youth with American Graffiti. It was a film about teenagers cruising around Modesto, California on the last evening of summer vacation in 1962. The year of 1962 was really the last gasp of the '50s … Continue reading More American Graffiti – DVD Review
This was obviously Sam Peckinpah’s most personal film: the director said Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia represents the one time in his entire career that the movie as made was 100 percent what he wanted. It is also his love letter to Mexico. Even though the film was not exactly a Western it … Continue reading Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia – Blu-Ray Review
The Glass Shield is directed by Charles Burnett, arguably the most important independent American Black filmmaker of all time. He went to UCLA, and his first film, Killer of Sheep, is considered by many to be the best film ever made by an African-American filmmaker. Burnett has worked in feature films and documentaries throughout the … Continue reading The Glass Shield – Blu-Ray Review
Black Orpheus is, obviously, based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, and is a film version of a play that had appeared few years earlier. The stage production included music but was not a musical, as is also the case with the film (the play, incidentally, was readapted in the ‘90s with music by Caetano … Continue reading Black Orpheus – Blu-Ray Review
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