Hard-media home video is making a comeback, and Kino Lorber shows its faith in the medium with an extravagant collection of its entire silent holdings of the Fritz Lang library. Mythical heroes, sacrificing heroines, criminal madmen and uncontrolled super-science are his themes; it’s a paranoid’s view of the first half of the 20th Century, expressed with fantastic innovations that literally re-write the rules of cinema.
Fritz Lang The Silent Films
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1919-1929 / B&W / 1:37 Silent Aperture / 1894 min. / Street Date November 21, 2017 / “The Complete Silent Films of German Cinema’s Supreme Stylist” / Available through Kino Lorber / 149.95
Films: The Spiders, Harakiri, The Wandering Shadow, Four Around the Woman, Destiny, Dr. Mabuse The Gambler, Die Nibelungen, Metropolis, Spies, Woman in the Moon, The Plague of Florence.
Directed by Fritz Lang
Kino Lorber has been a happy home for many marvelous discs of silent German classics. Thanks to their ongoing...
Fritz Lang The Silent Films
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1919-1929 / B&W / 1:37 Silent Aperture / 1894 min. / Street Date November 21, 2017 / “The Complete Silent Films of German Cinema’s Supreme Stylist” / Available through Kino Lorber / 149.95
Films: The Spiders, Harakiri, The Wandering Shadow, Four Around the Woman, Destiny, Dr. Mabuse The Gambler, Die Nibelungen, Metropolis, Spies, Woman in the Moon, The Plague of Florence.
Directed by Fritz Lang
Kino Lorber has been a happy home for many marvelous discs of silent German classics. Thanks to their ongoing...
- 11/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Max Kestner's upcoming sci-fi thriller Qeda looks to be a stylish and mind-bending film featuring a future world in ecological peril and a time travelling plot that sends two versions of the same person back to 2017, Looper style. In the film, the world is ravaged by ecological disaster. Oceans have risen and all natural freshwater is gone. Fang Rung has undergone a medical process of "molecular fission" in order to send his other half, code name "Gordon Thomas", back in time to the year 2017 in order to search for Mona Lindkvist, a scientist whose ground-breaking research was lost before it could save the world. When Fang Rung loses contact with Gordon he sees no alternative but to travel back to 2017 himself trying to locate his...
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- 8/24/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Blaxploitation films burst onto the scene in 1971 with the huge success of Gordon Park’s Shaft. By 1972, audiences were clamoring for more, and filmmakers and studios were keen to jump on the bandwagon. While most of the majors were focusing on the Shaft formula of hot chicks and cool Dicks, American International Pictures saw a void that no one had filled yet: the black horror film. And so, with as little money as they usually invested, they sent forth into the world Blacula (1972), and wouldn’t you know it? Audiences loved it.
Just don’t call it Blaxploitation—because it isn’t. Blacula, surprisingly, showcases little of the developing tropes already established by Shaft. There is no "jive" talk, no gratuitous nudity or overwhelming violence. And I say "surprisingly", because it would have been so easy (not to mention profitable) to follow the formula set in motion by Shaft, Superfly,...
Just don’t call it Blaxploitation—because it isn’t. Blacula, surprisingly, showcases little of the developing tropes already established by Shaft. There is no "jive" talk, no gratuitous nudity or overwhelming violence. And I say "surprisingly", because it would have been so easy (not to mention profitable) to follow the formula set in motion by Shaft, Superfly,...
- 1/16/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
D.A. Pennebaker puts cinema verité on the map with his terrific up-close docu portrait of Bob Dylan as he runs from concert appearances to hotels, cutting up with his friends, practicing with Joan Baez and giving reporters grief. Criterion's extras give us the best look yet at Pennebaker's innovative approach: don't direct, observe. Dont Look Back Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 786 1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 24, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Bob Dylan, Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Albert Grossman Cinematography Howard Alk, Jones Alk, D.A. Pennebaker Production Designer James D. Bissell Music performed by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price Produced by John Court and Albert Grossman Written, Edited and Directed by D.A. Pennebaker
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"I am not a folk singer. Do not call me a folk singer." The man who turned pop music on to socially conscious poetry is...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"I am not a folk singer. Do not call me a folk singer." The man who turned pop music on to socially conscious poetry is...
- 11/24/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In today's roundup of news and views: Kristin Thompson on La Maison du mystère, a silent serial wildly popular in 1923, David Bordwell on Orson Welles, Dan Callahan on Charles Chaplin, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Roberto Rossellini, Gordon Thomas on Bernardo Bertolucci, Roderick Heath on Luchino Visconti, Andrew Tracy on Ingmar Bergman, Jacob Krell on Clint Eastwood, Tina Hassannia on Asghar Farhadi, Stephen Dalton on Blade Runner, Sebastián Silva on filmmaking, an interview with Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater on Dazed and Confused—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/13/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Kristin Thompson on La Maison du mystère, a silent serial wildly popular in 1923, David Bordwell on Orson Welles, Dan Callahan on Charles Chaplin, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Roberto Rossellini, Gordon Thomas on Bernardo Bertolucci, Roderick Heath on Luchino Visconti, Andrew Tracy on Ingmar Bergman, Jacob Krell on Clint Eastwood, Tina Hassannia on Asghar Farhadi, Stephen Dalton on Blade Runner, Sebastián Silva on filmmaking, an interview with Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater on Dazed and Confused—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/13/2015
- Keyframe
by Ryan Rigley
With great power comes great responsibility. And with great villains come some not so great villains. The release of Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" is almost upon us and with plans for a sequel already in the works, fanboys all across the country are wondering which Spider-Man villain we'll see pop up next.
The Lizard was an interesting choice of antagonist: he's not as well known as Venom or Doctor Octopus, perhaps, but he's not obscure, either. And if one thing is certain, it's the fact that the Lizard has proven to be a very serious threat to Spider-Man in the past. But that's not to say that every one of Spider-Man's enemies are threatening. In fact, some of them aren't very threatening at all.
Here are five Spider-Man villains that would make the "Amazing" sequel look like a joke.
Typeface
Gordon Thomas has no superhuman abilities or enhancements.
With great power comes great responsibility. And with great villains come some not so great villains. The release of Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" is almost upon us and with plans for a sequel already in the works, fanboys all across the country are wondering which Spider-Man villain we'll see pop up next.
The Lizard was an interesting choice of antagonist: he's not as well known as Venom or Doctor Octopus, perhaps, but he's not obscure, either. And if one thing is certain, it's the fact that the Lizard has proven to be a very serious threat to Spider-Man in the past. But that's not to say that every one of Spider-Man's enemies are threatening. In fact, some of them aren't very threatening at all.
Here are five Spider-Man villains that would make the "Amazing" sequel look like a joke.
Typeface
Gordon Thomas has no superhuman abilities or enhancements.
- 7/2/2012
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
Bright Lights Film Journal editor Gary Morris introduces #74: "This issue opens with Jd Markel's enchanting exegesis of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, but as in Jd's previous contribution, expands into a much wider cultural critique…. In the Movies section, one of our new writers — come on down, Graham Daseler! — appears with two delightful entries, one on My Dinner with André, the other on the life and career of John Huston. Bl regular David Pike authoritatively analyzes Denis Villeneuve's disturbing feature Incendies, while Bl newbie Barry Stephenson offers a thoughtful study of ritual in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. First-time contributors William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson shine light on the dark side of cinema technologies in a daring piece on Inception. And two recent returnees to these cyberpages, Mark Chapman and Alex Kirschenbaum, stylishly weigh in on, respectively, the 'aesthetic of disavowal' of Haneke's La Pianiste and Scorsese's The Color of Money...
- 11/14/2011
- MUBI
Edward Cullen is without question the most iconic movie vampire of the 2000s. Critics cannot argue with that (go ahead, try to argue, critics; I’ll wait). However, many take issue with “The Twilight Saga’s” portrayal of vampires, complaining that it breaks many of the genre’s ”rules.”
While it’s true, does that really matter since it’s all fiction, anyway? And aren’t rules, as they say, meant to be broken? (Imagine if Batman still looked like this.) The answer depends on whom you ask.
In this week’s column, I compare Edward with his blood-sucking predecessors, matching him up with the most iconic film vampire from each era.The breakdown should give Twi-Hards a better understanding of the lineage “Twilight” draws upon… or choices to ignore. Use the information as you see fit: to defend Edward’s character, to criticize it, or to stock in your...
While it’s true, does that really matter since it’s all fiction, anyway? And aren’t rules, as they say, meant to be broken? (Imagine if Batman still looked like this.) The answer depends on whom you ask.
In this week’s column, I compare Edward with his blood-sucking predecessors, matching him up with the most iconic film vampire from each era.The breakdown should give Twi-Hards a better understanding of the lineage “Twilight” draws upon… or choices to ignore. Use the information as you see fit: to defend Edward’s character, to criticize it, or to stock in your...
- 1/21/2011
- by Ryan McKee
- NextMovie
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