If Erotic Blackmail is any indication of Eddy Naka’s skills as a writer & director, it explains why the filmmaker’s career consists of two feature films and a pair of TV series with great big time gaps in between each set…
Best-known for Van der Valk, the long –running British TV series starring Barry Foster (Frenzy), the eponymous character first hit the cinema screens in the German production Amsterdam Affair (1968), and in spite of the ongoing TV series’ success, apparently Nicholas Freeling’s character was up for grabs, resulting it this Dutch-Belgium production with a mix of British and Dutch actors…
Review of Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray of Beloved Infidel (1959), and some thoughts on 2013’s ‘Best Of’ tallies which tend to give indie labels short-shrift.
Review of Alan Zweig’s documentary When Jews Were Funny, which played recently at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.
Reviews of Doc Martin, Seasons 5 + brand new 6 (Acorn Media), plus a review of series composer Colin Towns from the archives.
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