Tag: Richard Fleischer

Lalo Schifrin’s Che!

Lalo Schifrin’s Che!

December 15, 2014 | By

Lalo Schifrin is showcased in this amalgam of reviews featuring Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray of Che! (1969), the soundtrack CD (Aleph Records) + the composer in an episode of Jazz Casual (Rhino) and the 2001 concert doc Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin (Image / Kultur).

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BR: Che! (1969)

BR: Che! (1969)

December 15, 2014 | By

Produced two years after the death of Argentine-born rebel Che Guevara, Richard Fleischer’s film is infamous for being a grand piece of cinematic kitsch, starring Omar Sharif as the eponymous anti-hero whose face became a brand on T-shirts, sheets, posters, and buttons for decades, and Jack Palance as a cigar-chomping Fidel Castro who led his band of rag-tag rebels into Havana after 2 years of guerilla warfare in the rural areas of Cuba…

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DVD: 10 Rillington Place (1971)

DVD: 10 Rillington Place (1971)

September 7, 2014 | By

This drama of Britain’s notorious serial killer remains one of the finest true crime films ever made, and deservedly sits alongside Peter Medak’s Let Him Have (1991) as one of the most powerful and wrenching tales of injustice and the abolition of the death penalty…

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Colour Noir

Colour Noir

June 13, 2011 | By

Review of Richard Fleischer’s superb ‘colour noir’ suspenser, Violent Saturday (Twilight Time)…

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BR: Violent Saturday (1955)

BR: Violent Saturday (1955)

June 13, 2011 | By

Film: Excellent BR Transfer: Excellent BR Extras: Excellent Label: Twilight Time Region: All Released: July 8, 2014 Genre: Film Noir / Crime / Suspense Synopsis: A mining town’s social order is turned upside-down when three strangers plot a bank robbery. Special Features: Audio Commentary with producer Nick Redman and film historian Julie Kirgo / Isolated Stereo […]

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