Posted in Directors, Hollywood, Stars, Style on Dec 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been going through the 18 disc Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection. It’s a big box filled – as I suspect you’ve already guessed – with 18 films which feature Marlene Dietrich in some capacity. At the time of writing, MovieMail are offering it for about sixty notes, which makes it the bargain of the […]
Posted in British Film, Directors on Nov 27th, 2007 4 Comments »
A month or so back, appalled by the profoundly conservative ‘Summer of British Film’, I wrote a piece championing the films that had slipped through the cracks: British masterpieces that were just as good as (and in some cases better than) the establishment history. You’ll find it here.
It climaxed with a rousing exhortation to readers […]
Posted in Directors, Horror on Nov 20th, 2007 3 Comments »
One of the great ironies of DVD is how marginal figures from film history often get the deluxe bells-and-whistles treatment while more illustrious titles get dumped in shoddy barebones editions. It’s a thought that occurred to me as I perused the new Mario Bava set (coming soon to region two). (Volume 1 is already available.)
I […]