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Nicholas Ray: Part I

Nicholas Ray: Part I

October 31, 2011 | By

Film review of Nicholas Ray’s long unfinished and rarely seen experimental film, We Can’t Go Home Again (1976), recently restored and screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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Happy Mittel-Halloween

Happy Mittel-Halloween

October 30, 2011 | By

Idle Sunday news bits about “caring sessions” in two Calgary grade schools in place of Halloween, Mario Bava, spooky movies at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Film Forum, Nicholas Ray at the Lightbox, and a screening of Israel’s first horror film Rabies / Kalevet (2010) at Innis Hall tonight.

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Soundtrack Reviews & Sundry

Soundtrack Reviews & Sundry

October 25, 2011 | By | 1 Comment

Reviews of Silva Screen’s compilation series, featuring Music from the Transformers Trilogy by Steve Jablonsky, The Music of Michel Legrand, and The Music of James Horner, plus La-La Land’s complete presentation of James Horner’s Commando. Also: gorgeous Rue Morgue poster art, Julian Roffman’s The Mask + Guillermo del Toro in person at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and David Cronenberg’s Shivers at The Revue. Sometimes I love my city. Sometimes.

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, Part II

Henri-Georges Clouzot, Part II

October 20, 2011 | By

In Part II, a film review of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Wages of Fear, The / Le salaire de la peur (1953), plus info on upcoming Nicholas Ray films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, with rare audience introductions by the director’s widow, Susan Ray.

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Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot

October 18, 2011 | By

With a retrospective of French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot underway at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, I’ve added a blog regarding Sunday’s screening of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), and info on upcoming titles currently unavailable on home video.

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