Back in 2005, the journalists in Maziar Bahari’s documentary were already commenting on the increasing dangers faced when covering war zones in the Middle East, in which press passes and credentials no longer guaranteed safety or cooperation, and being a western press agent almost ensured their status as perfect ransom targets or props for a media campaign to shock the world with filmed murders…
Tales of Rebel Pedagogues on Blu from Twilight Time: Evolutionists vs. Creationists in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) + losing one’s ‘prime’ in Jay Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Stanley Kramer’s film version of Inherit the Wind may be a unique case in which a film not only eclipses the existence of original Broadway play upon which it’s based, but attempts to fill in some of the play’s factual omissions within Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee 1955 fictionalized version of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial…
Bucking the clichés of the ‘benevolent teacher’ classics like Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) and The Browning Version (1994), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the flip-side in which vanity, selfishness, and delusion rule. Jay Presson Allen’s 1968 play and subsequent film adaptation (both derived from Murial Spark’s 1961 novel) is no less provocative nor raw than when originally released in 1969…
In Part 1 of this series on anti-nuclear dramas, three differing levels of British Bleakism: Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows (1986) on Blu from Twilight Time, Mick Jackson’s Threads (1986), and Peter Watkins’ The War Game (1965).
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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