Yilmaz Güney, Part I – Yol (1982)
Review of Yilmaz Güney’s Cannes-decorated Yol (1982), part of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s tribute to one of Turkey’s most important directors, beginning this week.
Jan Kadar does CanCon – Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Review of Ergo Media’s new DVD of Lies My Father Told Me(1975), Jan Kadar’s film version of Ted Allan’s semi-autobiographical tale of 1920s Jewish Montreal.
Just Don’t Go There…
Just uploaded: reviews of Synapse Films’ snappy new Blu-ray of Frank Henenlotter’s classic Frankenhooker, and a similar themed Frankenstein riff, Ralph Nelson’s Embryo (1976).
Horror Tales + Desert Noir
Cluster upload of 3 horror films on Blu-ray from late 2011: Apollo 18 (Anchor Bay U.S.), Bereavement (Anchor Bay Canada), and Final Destination 5 (Warner Home Video), plus two unique desert noir films: one’s only available widescreen on laserdisc – Carl Colpaert’s superb Delusion from 1991 – and the other’s a hard to pin down hybrid of noir, comic book crime, and a live-action Itchy & Scratchy cartoon – Jonathan Vara’s South of Heaven (Synapse).
Horror Tales + Desert Noir
Cluster upload of 3 horror films on Blu-ray from late 2011: Apollo 18 (Anchor Bay U.S.), Bereavement (Anchor Bay Canada), and Final Destination 5 (Warner Home Video), plus two unique desert noir films: one’s only available widescreen on laserdisc – Carl Colpaert’s superb Delusion from 1991 – and the other’s a hard to pin down hybrid of noir, comic book crime, and a live-action Itchy & Scratchy cartoon – Jonathan Vara’s South of Heaven (Synapse).
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