This TV production from France’s Channel 4 manages to integrate selections from a live concert in Canne with the Orchestre National de Lyon in which Lalo Schifrin performs material from his own repertoire and select classical pieces, and is caught in a series of brief interviews reflecting on his career, some of his best-known themes, and how the latter reflect his approach to scoring movies and TV…
Two examples of Cinema Bizarre: Ted Post’s The Baby (1974), new on Blu from Severin + Robert Martin Carroll’s Sonny Boy (1989)
Anjanette Comer (The Appaloosa, The Underneath) plays social worker Ann Gentry, a woman with a secret life who gets too close to her client (only named Baby, and nothing else), and ultimately seeks to liberate him from his oppressive family, headed by Mrs. Wadsworth (Strangers on a Train’s Ruth Roman, a friend of Post, sporting a giant balloon of hair)…
There are certain films in the annals of home video which continue to maintain an aura of supreme weirdness, and among American productions, this oddity stands out for being criticized as tasteless, depraved, cruel, and patently wrong, but it’s also one of those films where the legend may have exaggerated the actual work…
Editor’s Blog and review links of Julie Marchese’s 2014 doc on the New Beverly Cinema, Out of Print (available via Vimeo) + Christopher Kenneally 2012 doc Side by Side (New Video Group) on the rapid switch to digital, and the sudden loathing of 35mm film.
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