Blu-ray Review: Portrait in Black
By the late 1950’s, Lana Turner was experiencing a career resurgence. Kicked off by her Oscar nomination for her role in Peyton Place, followed by the media frenzy surrounding her involvement in the 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder, and the 1959 release of Imitation of Life, produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk, which […]
The Black Swan (Blu-ray)
More than seventy years before Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp made Pirates fun again, Tyrone Power became a star, beloved for his swashbuckling roles in films such as The Mask of Zorro, Blood and Sand, and The Black Swan. Recently released on Blu-ray as part of 20th Century Fox’s Voice Your Choice program, wherein readers […]
Blu-ray Review: Blood and Sand (1941)
The first Hollywood adaptation of Vincente Blasco Ibanez’s Blood and Sand released in 1922, helped solidify Rudolph Valentino’s legend. In 1941, 20th Century Fox and Darryl Zanuck produced a sound and Technicolor remake, determined to give the story the stylish treatment he felt it deserved. Determined to get the best look, Zanuck hired director Rouben […]
DVD Review: King – A Filmed Record…From Montgomery to Memphis
Rarely available in its full form since 1970 Ely Landau’s King: A Filmed Record is one of the most important documents of the American civil rights movement. Told without traditional narration, this 181-minute documentary follows the last thirteen years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s public life. The occasional subtitle is used to identify dates, […]
Kino Lorber Acquires Worldwide Rights to King: A Filmed Record (1970)
Kino Lorber has acquired all worldwide rights to the acclaimed and seminal documentary King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970). Produced for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation by Ely Landau (The American Film Theater collection), King is an epic document of the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., from the 1955 Montgomery […]
Blu-ray Review: The Guns of Navarone
The 1960’s was the decade of the epic (Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Escape, Doctor Zhivago). While David Lean was gaining acclaim and winning awards for his big movies, fellow Briton J. Lee Thompson was having a quieter, though no less impressive rise in his career fortunes. Throughout the late 1950’s, Thompson directed a number […]