I’ve always had a special affection for Walt Disney’s 1940 folie de grandeur, perhaps because it was the first film I was fully conscious of seeing as a film — to the point where, as a terrified three-year-old during the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence, I clearly remember looking away from the screen to [...]
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I’ve seen it three times now and I still can’t quite believe that we’ve got the all-but-complete “Metropolis” in our hands after all these decades of trying to decode the hopelessly screwed-up Paramount edit. In the new Blu-ray from Kino that comes out this week, Marti Koerber’s restoration from the original camera negative looks [...] Charles Spencer Chaplin managed to appear in some 35 short films and one feature during the twelve months he spent at Mack Sennett’s Keystone studios between 1913 and 1914. It’s a sign of how immensely popular these films were that all but one survive (the missing title is “Her Friend the Bandit,” which Chaplin [...] The latest holiday gift set from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment doesn’t have the wingspan of their previous blockbusters, “Ford at Fox” or “Murnau, Borzage and Fox” — but then, we’re unlikely to see anything on that scale again, as DVD sales continue to dwindle. But it does contain fifteen films, including five appearing [...] The New York Times has its special “Holiday Movies” section this week, which means no DVD column but those so inclined can read my one-sentence plot summaries — carefully distilled from official studio press releases! — on the films we have to look forward to this November and December. I’ve also got an interview [...] |
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