Reviews of two idiosyncratic films featuring characters from Barry Gifford’s Sailor and Lula series – David Lynch’s nightmarish Wild at Heart (Twilight Time) + Alex de la Iglesia’s graphic Perdita Durango / aka Dance with the Devil (Unapix).
Part 2 of Video Tales includes a review of Jake West’s excellent 2010 doc Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape (Severin / Nucleus) + scans of another 1980s video store catalogue!
Podcast Interview with composer Darius Holbert (Hobo with a Shotgun, Quick Draw, Oh the Places You’ll Go!) + links to excerpted animation patterns in HD + Blu-ray reviews of Hobo with a Shotgun (EOne) and Street Trash (Synapse Films).
Book review of Winifred Phillips’ A Composer’s Guide to Game Music (MIT Press) + related reviews integrated from the old website.
The theme is comedy at TJFF 2014, with Sheldon Leonard’s Wonderful Life, Ten from Your Show of Shows, and When Comedy Went to School + Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose on Blu from Twilight Time.
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