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August 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Heroes Shed No Tears, by Dayne Linford

John Woo belongs to that worldwide pantheon of legendarily cool directors achieving international notoriety at the end of the 90s, reworking classic Hollywood tropes and genres to create something that, despite those antecedents, feels almost entirely original. But, before bullet...

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June 13, 2019

Back to the Fatherland: Never Again, by Dayne Linford

It’s so straightforward, it’s disarming. A group of people sit around a table somewhere in Israel, some Jewish Israelis, others Germans or Austrians, all too young to remember the history they’re trying to reckon with and yet forced to reckon...

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May 22, 2019

Halston: Through a Glass Obscured, by Dayne Linford

The act of looking back, of examining the past, is a key feature of human consciousness and arguably the primary function of art itself–to render a narrative so we can understand ourselves. As we look back over an incredibly violent...

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May 14, 2019

The Third Wife: The Living River, Drowning, by Dayne Linford

Film about the oppression of women throughout history and in society is so common now as to be almost its own genre, transcending historical fiction, biopic, epic, fantasy, drama, all of which occupy only a portion of its territory, from...

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May 12, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, by Dayne Linford

One of the most fascinating aspects of cinematic history is how often key elements of second run and B studio products are later appropriated by mainstream studios in billion dollar movies, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. Hammer Studios, a British B...

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April 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Street Fighter Collection, by Dayne Linford

No, this is not the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme adaptation of the famous video game series. We don’t even get a Ryu cameo, though I guess expecting characters not yet created would be rather unreasonable. This trio of films, kicked...

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February 9, 2018

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Freedom and Restraint, by Dayne Linford

Ideally, animation showcases the best of what cinema as an art form has to offer – unmoored from the typical physical and monetary limits, the camera sees what it will, constrained only by the imagination of the filmmaker. In a...

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December 14, 2017

Shakespeare-Wallah: The Breaking of So Great a Thing, by Dayne Linford

At the start of the early James Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah (1965), filmed in a long tracking shot over a beautiful, ornate table laden with food, a Maharajah (Utpal Dutt), at ease amongst the riches of his palace, relays to...

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August 9, 2017

Home Video Hovel: The Paul Naschy Collection, by Dayne Linford

One of the best things about cinema over this last century, characterized by this art form perhaps above all others, is the way it has left thousands of little pockets, obscure cinematic worlds unto themselves, just waiting for you to...

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May 31, 2017

Home Video Hovel: Return of the Dragon, by Dayne Linford

There’s little left to be said regarding The Way of the Dragon (released in the U.S. as Return of the Dragon), the only film written and directed by Bruce Lee, as well as featuring him as its star. However, for...

Category: dayne linford

Home Video Hovel: Heroes Shed No Tears, by Dayne Linford

Back to the Fatherland: Never Again, by Dayne Linford

Halston: Through a Glass Obscured, by Dayne Linford

The Third Wife: The Living River, Drowning, by Dayne Linford

Home Video Hovel: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, by Dayne Linford

Home Video Hovel: The Street Fighter Collection, by Dayne Linford

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Freedom and Restraint, by Dayne Linford

Shakespeare-Wallah: The Breaking of So Great a Thing, by Dayne Linford

Home Video Hovel: The Paul Naschy Collection, by Dayne Linford

Home Video Hovel: Return of the Dragon, by Dayne Linford

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