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Borowczyk, Bava, Hughes

By June 1, 2015No Comments

JekyllI Feel Free: Marina Pierro in Walerian Borowczyk’s Jekyll. 

For RogerEbert.com last week I wrote about new Blu-rays of Mario Bava’s Blood And Black Lace and Walerian Borowczyk’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, two incred­ible films with a wealth of psycho­sexu­al pro­voca­tion built in. So much so that I did­n’t men­tion how incred­ible both Blu-rays actu­ally look. They look incred­ible. My friend James White, who’s been a key fig­ure in Arrow’s still-ongoing Borowczyk pro­ject, informs me that Arrow won Focal International Awards “Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Project” just recently for the Borowczyk box Camera Obscura.

In a very nearly entirely dif­fer­ent vein, I con­sidered My Ferris Bueller Problem, And Ours, over at Decider. 

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  • Petey says:
    June 1, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    May I sug­gest you change your offi­cial title from “Veteran Critic” to “Venerable Critic”?

  • Mike says:
    June 1, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    “They could be fas­cist anarch­ists and it still would­n’t change the fact that I don’t have a car.” That’s the line that pegs it as a Reagan-era arti­fact for me.

  • Petey says:
    June 4, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    “What actu­ally puzzles me is that “Entourage” the movie EVEN got made. Numbers could­n’t have been THAT com­pel­ling. Blackmail? Lost bet?”
    Very con­strained budget. Built-in pro­mo­tion­al. Built-in audi­ence for first run and ancil­lar­ies. Absolute no-brainer, fin­an­cially; can­’t lose money, could well make money.

  • Petey says:
    June 4, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    Or put anoth­er way, would you rather fin­ance Aloha at 37M, or Entourage at 27M?
    Even if Aloha had ended up a as a func­tion­ally work­ing film, mak­ing decisions 18 months ago, from a strictly money POV, one made sense, and one didn’t…

  • Petey says:
    June 21, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    Dang, I’ve read everything cur­rently in print ori­gin­ally issued under the “Donald Westlake” and “Richard Stark” names, and a smat­ter­ings of the oth­ers. AMA. (And can we get a SCR thread not exclus­ive centered on Stark on him one of these days?)
    As far as the Dortmunders go, I coun­ter­in­tu­it­ively would­n’t advise start­ing with The Hot Rock. I think What’s The Worst That Could Happen is the place to start, though Jimmy the Kid obvi­ously makes the most sense if you’re com­ing at Dortmunder from Richard Stark fandom.
    And for Glenn in par­tic­u­lar, I assume you’ve already read The Hook, but if not, run, don’t walk…
    (Finally, why the hell isn’t his entire out­put in ‘print’ in the days of the eBook? It’s a crime against human­ity. I read Help I Am Being Held Prisoner as an adoles­cent, thought is was the fun­ni­est thing I’d ever read, and am out­raged it’s not available.)