Bonjour tristesse: Preminger, Seberg, and Sagan
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.
Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
Award Nominees on Home Video: Part I
Our first tally of newly announced Best of 2012 nominees plus links to available home video editions.
Enemy Mine comes to Blu
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.
The TFCA 100K Cash Prize Facelift + Eros on Film, Part VII
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).
Fritz Lang’s Indian Epics (and thunderous thighs)
Editor’s Blog & review of Fritz Lang’s Indian epic – Tiger of Eschnapur + The Indian Tomb (1959) – which screened this month at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Indian Expressionism series.
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