The only time I ever laid eyes on the great Robert Aldrich was at a test screening of “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” at the Esquire Theater in Chicago, in what must have been the fall of 1976. He stepped out of a limousine, with those famous eyebrows curling upward, and maneuvered his imposing bulk straight [...]
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In the New York Times this week, some notes on Mary Pickford on the occasion of Milestone’s release of “Rags and Riches: the Mary Pickford Collection,” a Blu-ray collection that includes fine transfers of Maurice Tourneur’s “The Poor Little Rich Girl” (1917), Sidney A. Franklin’s “The Hoodlum” (1919), and that single, astonishing work of [...] It’s good to be getting back to a normal schedule after several weeks of disruptions great and small. This week in the New York Times, I have a review of Kino’s new three-dvd set “Fritz Lang: The Early Years,” which contains the three pre-”Destiny” titles that have been circulating on the internet for years, [...] |
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