Running at the tIFF Bell Lightbox us Christian Petzold’s excellent and very intimate drama Barbara, starring Nina Hoss as an East German doctor quietly waiting for her chance to escape from under the evil Communist thumb. Uploaded in tandem with the film review are mobile editions of three other Petzold films reviewed at KQEK.com – Yella (2007), Gespenster / Ghosts (2005), and Wolfsburg (2003). Oh yeah: and Happy New Year!
Quick Editor’s Blog and review links for Leith Stevens’ Destination Moon (1950), recently released on CD by Monstrous Movie Music, plus related material at KQEK.com Mobile. Also added: Chapter 2 of the Making of BSV 1172 at Big Head Amusements regarding burns, spots, and splotches on vintage tube video cameras.
Long & windy review of Otto Preminger’s production of Bonjour tristesse, adapted in 1958 from the best-selling novel by Francoise Sagan, and newly released on Blu-ray from Twilight Time.
Review of Wolfgang Petersen’s Enemy Mine, that flawed 1985 sci-fi drama newly minted on Blu-ray from Twlight Time, and an Editor’s Blog on the issues with creating an alternate version.
Brief Editor’s Blog on on Rogers Communications’ recent increase of the top Toronto Film Critics Association prize from $15,000 to a whopping $100,000, and in Part 7 of Eros on Film (You thought this series was dead? Ha!) we look at Tinto Brass’ Cheeky! / Trasgredire (Cult Epics) now on Blu, Salvatore Semperi’s Dark Side of Love / Fotografando Patrizia (One 7 Movies), and Walter Boos’ Schoolgirl Report #9: Mature Before Graduation / Schulmädchen-Report 9: Reifeprüfung vor dem Abitur (Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films).
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