Cinema Bizarre: The Baby (1973) and Sonny Boy (1989)
Two examples of Cinema Bizarre: Ted Post’s The Baby (1974), new on Blu from Severin + Robert Martin Carroll’s Sonny Boy (1989)
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BR: Baby, The (1973)
Anjanette Comer (The Appaloosa, The Underneath) plays social worker Ann Gentry, a woman with a secret life who gets too close to her client (only named Baby, and nothing else), and ultimately seeks to liberate him from his oppressive family, headed by Mrs. Wadsworth (Strangers on a Train’s Ruth Roman, a friend of Post, sporting a giant balloon of hair)…
VHS: Sonny Boy (1989)
There are certain films in the annals of home video which continue to maintain an aura of supreme weirdness, and among American productions, this oddity stands out for being criticized as tasteless, depraved, cruel, and patently wrong, but it’s also one of those films where the legend may have exaggerated the actual work…
Digital vs. Film: Out of Print (2014) + Side by Side (2012)
Editor’s Blog and review links of Julie Marchese’s 2014 doc on the New Beverly Cinema, Out of Print (available via Vimeo) + Christopher Kenneally 2012 doc Side by Side (New Video Group) on the rapid switch to digital, and the sudden loathing of 35mm film.
Digital: Out of Print (2014)
Just as video stores are becoming a rarity in towns and cities, so are repertory cinemas, the independently owned theatres were in the pre-home video era one could catch films they’d missed at the major chains, or more importantly, see double-bills of classic, rare and foreign films available nowhere else…
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