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1964’s Summer Olympics (or the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, officially) were the first to be held in a non-Western country, finally landing in Japan after the country’s two previously scheduled hosting opportunities were canceled due to World War II....
When discussing cinema, the term “exploitation” usually means something fun. Trashy and not exactly contributing to society’s moral fiber, sure, but fun. But Matthew Mallinson’s 1980 psuedo-documentary Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, out now in a limited edition Blu-ray...
Film Movement Classics’ new four movie set of comedies starring Alastair Sim, which they’ve dubbed “Alastair Sim’s School for Laughter,” does not present the films in chronological order (though the essay by Ronald Bergen in the accompanying booklet does address...
When you think of the dominant aesthetic of the Soviet Union, whether it be film, art from the Russian avant-garde and from socialist realists or even propaganda posters, you probably conjure up sharp lines, severe angles and figures in three-quarter...
Vsevolod Pudovkin was a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein but, while the latter’s list of notable films continues well into the sound era, Pudovkin’s legacy consists almost entire of the three consecutive works he produced from 1926 to 1928, collected in...
In the present day, when the “Ealing comedies” are invoked, the movies that come first to mind for most of us are Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers. In...
When you go to an art museum, the main thing you’re there to do is look at the art, right? At least, that’s how I go to an art museum. Outside of the names of the work and its creator...
In an effort–a massively successful one or a complete failure depending on whom you ask and what sort of movies you value–to boost film production in the country, the Canadian government offered, from 1975 to 1982, to make any investment...
With its overheated, Southern Gothic dishevelment and its trio of desperate women, The Fugitive Kind (out now on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection) is undeniably some Tennessee Williams shit. But with a director, Sidney Lumet, who insists on treating it...
Richard Fleischer’s Trapped–out now on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley–begins in unorthodox fashion for a film noir. A mini-documentary explains to us the purpose of the United States Department of the Treasury, specifically its agents, known collectively as the Secret Service...
