Category: home video hovel

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 11, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, by David Bax

Most of Yasujirô Ozu’s output is a blind spot for me but, from what I have seen, I understand that quiet familial and marital discord is pretty common in his work. And yet it’s a testament to his power as...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 9, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

Count Dracula’s status as horror’s most sinister sex symbol is a mythology built over the last 100 years. From the pages of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to Bela Lugosi’s iconic performance, the Count’s grotesque appeal is both hypnotic and repulsive....

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 9, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Cloud-Capped Star, by David Bax

Like so many tragedies, Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star starts off feeling like a comedy. Every character and scenario is so flush with emotion–most of it happiness–that it feels as if they may burst into song. One of them, on...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / west anthony

October 7, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Fists in the Pocket, by West Anthony

Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 debut film Fists in the Pocket reminded me of my family and that’s not a good thing. A ferociously unpleasant depiction of a family that appears to be slowly eating itself alive and asking for seconds, the film...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 4, 2019

Home Video Hovel: L’Argent, by David Bax

Sound was introduced into cinema in a mainstream, commercial way in 1927 and it’s always felt a little ironic and a little tragic that so many of the greatest silent films were made just as the silent format was being...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Fragment of an Empire, by David Bax

With every film from the era that I watch, I become increasingly convinced that the late 1920s represented a peak in the cinematic art form. Like many of these films that I’ve seen in recent years, I watched Fridrikh Ermler’s...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Reflecting Skin, by David Bax

In a making-of documentary included on the new Film Movement Classics Blu-ray of 1990’s The Reflecting Skin, writer and director Philip Ridley reveals that his screenplay was originally titled, simply, American Gothic. The final title is an improvement (not least...

dayne linford / home video hovel / movies / reviews

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...

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 14, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Lust for a Vampire, by Alexander Miller

Among the many phases of Hammer, the biggest rift lies in between their period at Bray studios and the later Elstree era. The Bray manor hosted classics like Horror of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and other classics...

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 14, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Quatermass and the Pit, by Alexander Miller

The Quatermass series is vitally important in the history of Hammer Horror. Though they’re primarily rooted in science fiction, these titles doubly embrace an atmosphere of terror. After working in a myriad of genres, prolific producer Anthony Hinds gobbled up...

Category: home video hovel

Home Video Hovel: The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: The Cloud-Capped Star, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Fists in the Pocket, by West Anthony

Home Video Hovel: L’Argent, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Fragment of an Empire, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Reflecting Skin, by David Bax

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

Home Video Hovel: Lust for a Vampire, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: Quatermass and the Pit, by Alexander Miller

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