Shakespeare, Bergman, Mendelssohn, and Woody in less than 90 mins.
Review of Woody Allen’s underrated A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982), available on Blu from Twilight Time.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
BR: Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, A (1982)
From William Shakespeare’s classic play A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream of fairy dusted lovers true and accidental, errors in judgment, and wacky hijinks between various couples, to Ingmar Bergman’s variation Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) in which said hijinks are isolated to one extended night, we have another extrapolation from Woody Allen…
Jack Hill’s Pit Stop (1969) – An Artful Racing Film
Review of jack Hill’s excellent stock car racing ‘art film’ Pit Stop (1969), new on Blu from Arrow Video / MVD Visual.
BR: Pit Stop (1969)
Although Jack Hill’s Spider Baby (shot in 1964, released in 1967) should’ve been the calling card for another feature-length gig, that film’s delayed release had the director bouncing around, working on a racing film as a contract writer for Universal for a blip before going back to the indie world, directing what he thought was going to be material for a proposed 4-picture deal with a Mexican producer starring Boris Karloff…
More Film 4 Goodies: Angel (1982) + A Month in the Country (1987)
Reviews of two Film 4 productions, new on Blu from Twilight Time: Neil Jordan’s film debut Angel (1982) + Pat O’Connor’s A Month in the Country (1987).
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