"Backlot" benefits
Universal Home Video is a peculiar outlet, I gotta tell you. It more or less…
Glenn KennyJune 18, 2009
"The Seventh Seal" considered as a comedy
Death to Block: "What the fuck is up?"Today a snazzed-up new special edition of Ingmar…
Glenn KennyJune 16, 2009
"Fear" is a man's best friend
The recent Blu-ray release of Clouzot's ever-great The Wages of Fear prompts some pinkish musings…
Glenn KennyJune 12, 2009
An art film Blu-ray bonanza...
Holy cow. Under my transom, in the space of a week, come Criterion Blu-rays of…
Glenn KennyJune 9, 2009
Wanna fight?
Anne Baxter, of all people, is ready to get slashing, in Chase A Crooked Shadow,…
Glenn KennyJune 9, 2009
"Grainstorm," my ass; or, Black and White Monk Time
Jeffrey Wells feels burned by the new Sony Blu-ray of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, calling the…
Glenn KennyJune 5, 2009
In Praise of Eureka!/Masters of Cinema
I've told this tale before, but it bears repeating here, I think. A few years…
Glenn KennyJune 5, 2009
Image of the day, 6/4/09
A quite representative shot from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1957 Il Grido, a film that seems to…
Glenn KennyJune 4, 2009
Sometimes you just feel like a Western...
...and then you get a Western, and it's not really that good. I think the…
Glenn KennyJune 2, 2009