New at the beginning of this annoyingly chilly week – a review of Bye Bye Birdie (1963), George Sidney’s blazing Technicolor film version of the surreal, satirical Broadway musical. Twilight Time’s Blu-ray looks & sounds gorgeous, and Ann-Marget (“Ann-Margrock” to others) leaps from the TV and screams at you in DTS!
In the latest Editor’s Blog: some compact thoughts & digressions about International Independent Videostore Day, which marked its second year this past Saturday October 2th. Yes Virginia, video stores still exist. Quite a few of them, really.
Soundtrack reviews for Bill Brown’s Brother’s Keeper (MovieScore Media), Mateo Messina’s Butter, Brian Byrne’s The Good Doctor, Craig Armstrong’s In Time (all Lakeshore Records), and Nathan Johnson’s Looper (Cut Narrative / La-La-Land).
Quick review of this past Wednesday’s Packaged Goods: The Evolution of the Music Video, and highlights of the Fall / Winter programmes at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Besides Bond there’s Indian Expressionism (Lang!), other spy films (Puppet on a Chain!), post-apocalyptic dystopian nihilism (Logan’s Run!), zombies, slashers, opera, exhibits, and many other great films on Fridays & Saturdays I won’t be able to see.
Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.
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