Birth of a Notion, Robert McKimson, 1947In which a cartoon Peter Lorre waxes disconsolate to his dog, Leopold, over his difficulties obtaining a duck wishbone for one of his experiments.…
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Where would we cinephiles be without Rialto Pictures? More to the point, where wouldn't we be? It's through this distribution company's work that we're able to see gorgeous new prints…
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"There's clearly no cut-and-dried answer here," Dave Kehr notes in a post concerning the controversy over the aspect ratio on the new Universal Touch of Evil 50th Anniversary Edition DVD…
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Seriously. I know there's a lot of film bloggers out there, who, um, blog about, um, film, and, um, stuff. But how many of those film bloggers will bother to…
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Warner's recent box "The Busby Berkeley Collection Volume Two" is a cornucopia of wisecracking, crooning, dancing, and racial diciness. I examine its particulars in a two-part series at The Auteurs'…
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As promised, the now Tuesday-morning "Foreign Region DVD Report" is up at the Auteur's, this week a look at the Eureka!/Masters of Cinema disc of Dumont's La vie de Jesus…
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