CanCon 101: The Disappearance of The Disappearance (1977) + Robert Altman’s Quintet (1979)
Reviews of two – yes, TWO – CanCon classiques: Stuart Cooper’s The Disappearance (1977) on Blu from Twilight Time + Robert Altman’s Quintet (1979) from Fox.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
BR: Disapearance, The (1977)
Although directed by a British-based American, The Disappearance is very much a CanCon production, stacked with key Canadian talent to ensure the film’s costs were minimized by tax breaks, but unlike the usual disposable fodder that briefly populated theatre screens and became mainstays on Canadian TV for years, this particular work is an attempt to transcend the hitman film by transgressing into art house terrain…
DVD: Quintet (1979)
In almost every occasion where Robert Altman’s tackled a specific film genre – western, sci-fi, comedy, and thriller – the results unfold like a director not just attempting to redefine the genre with his own loose approach to its tropes, but denying some of the elements that standardize a genre…
10 Rillington Place / R.I.P. Richard Attenborough
Review of the 1971 true-crime drama 10 Rillington Place (Sony U.K.) + tribute to its star, the late great Sir Richard Attenborough.
DVD: 10 Rillington Place (1971)
This drama of Britain’s notorious serial killer remains one of the finest true crime films ever made, and deservedly sits alongside Peter Medak’s Let Him Have (1991) as one of the most powerful and wrenching tales of injustice and the abolition of the death penalty…
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