Bu-ray Review: Vera Cruz
Shot on location in Mexico, 1954’s Vera Cruz was a new kind of western for the time. Filmed in Superscope, featuring sweeping landscapes, and multiple gun battles, and stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, rarely has a films tagline—“The Giants Battle in the Biggest Spectacle of Them All!”—seemed so appropriate. Directed by Robert Aldrich (Whatever […]
DVD Review: Paths of Glory (Criterion Collection)
Criterion | 1957 | 88 mins. | NR 1957’s Paths of Glory was Stanley Kubrick’s fourth film, and the first one to bring him a taste of notoriety. The then 28-year-old director and co-writer (with Carlder Willingham and help from novelist Jim Thompson) delivered a masterful, unsentimental, classic anti-war film about World War I. This […]