Review + podcast interview with Out of Print director Julia Marchese, and reviews of Peter Flynn’s The Dying of the Light (2015) + Angela Christlieb and Stephan Kijak’s Cinemania (2002) …and last but not least, in the Editor’s Blog, a detailed account of a 16mm short’s post-production, circa 1990.
When Train Travel Goes BAD: Jun’ya Satô’s Bullet Train / Shinkansen daibakuha (1975) from Twilight Time + George Cosmatos’ The Cassandra Crossing (1976) from Timeless / Shout.
Reprint of a revised Editor’s Blog on my preferred Christmas film, Die Hard (1988), and perhaps the greatest action film around.
Review of Kent Jones’ 2015 documentary on the momentous meeting in 1966 between Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut that resulted in a classic tome on filmmaking + a lengthy Editor’s Blog on the book’s personal impact.
Review of The Passenger / Le Passager (2014), the French detective mini-series based on the novel and written by Jean-Christophe Grangé, and released on DVD via MHz Networks.
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