For information on the film, click here for an earlier review. Kino Lorber’s all-new HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of 35mm Inter-positive is a wonderful representation of the 70mm Todd-AO production shot by Ernest Laszlo. The clarity…
Often considered one of the top ten comedies of all time, the original Airplane! is a perfect spoof of the popular disaster films of the 1970’s. Highly quotable, some of its most famous lines are still repeated today, more than…
Riding a wave of popularity after five years on Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler co-wrote and starred in Billy Madison, a character that embodies the over-the top immaturity that made many of his SNL characters so memorable. Released in 1995,…
When considering Sam Peckinpah’s resume, Convoy is an odd entry. Known for his innovative and explicit approach to violence, particularly in the Western genre, Convoy deals with a group of struggling truckers. However, by the time 1977 rolled around, Peckinpah…
Films about well known artists are a dime a dozen, but few are as unique as Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a semi-documentary about the Canadian pianist Glenn Gouid, an iconoclastic genius. Regarded as a master of Bach, the…
At first glance, George Stevens’ Shane, while beautifully shot, might appear to be similar to countless other Westerns. A lone gunman looking to start a new life, rides into town and ends up reluctantly using his guns in defense of…
Though her career only spanned six years and eleven films, Grace Kelly is considered one of the most iconic, fashionable stars in cinematic history. Released in 1956, High Society is a remake of Philip Barry’s social satire The Philadelphia Story….
Perhaps best known for being the first film from the new Dreamworks Studio, The Peacemaker is rather brave, taking seventeen minutes before anything resembling a well known Hollywood star shows up, or for that matter, the English language. Opening with…
The 1975 Broadway debut of The Wiz—an African American retelling of the classic children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum—was a huge hit. Starring seventeen-year-old Stephanie Mills as Dorothy, who was a tiny teenager with a…
Released in 1964, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a deceptively simple story of doomed romanticism told as a movie musical. By then, the movie musical was a genre on the wane, but director Jacques Demy tapped into the timeless appeal…