Blu-ray Review: Tea and Sympathy
Based on the Broadway play of the same name, Tea and Sympathy is a story about the risks of not conforming to societal norms. Adapted for the screen by the play’s author Robert Anderson, the film created a considerable stir with the Production Code office and the Catholic Legion of Decency. Seventy years after its […]
Blu-ray Review: Night of the Iguana
The 1950’s and early sixties saw a surge of popularity around the work of Tennessee Williams. More than half of his plays were reproduced for the screen. His themes of sexuality, marital infidelity and mental illness, etc., were shocking but acceptable in this era of change in moral acceptability. Nonetheless, movies of the time could […]
DVD Review: The Arrangement (1969)
Written and directed by Elia Kazan (A Face in the Crowd), The Arrangement, released in 1969, was based on his own bestselling novel of the same name. Having read Kazan’s A Life, it quickly becomes clear that Kazan saw something of himself in the film’s protagonist, Eddie Anderson, a high-flying advertising executive. So, perhaps he’s […]
Blu-ray Review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion Collection)
Colonel Blimp started as a comic strip by David Low in the 1930’s. The strip was a satirical look at the aging military generals of the time; creaky tough old birds who hammered home their traditional English virtues, despite being completely at odds with the country’s contemporary mood. In The Life and Death of Colonel […]
Blu-ray Review: An Affair to Remember
20th Century Fox | 1957 | 115 mins. | NR Director Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember has an interesting place in the history of film. First told in his 1939 classic Love Affair, in 1957, McCarey remade his own film, relying on the same basic screenplay. He renamed his movie An Affair to Remember. […]