Julien Leclercq's THE ASSAULT (L'ASSAUT)
The Assault Chrysalis director Julien Leclercq's The Assault (L'assaut) is scheduled to be screened at the Read More
View Articlecollecting Sylva Koscina, Edwige Fenech, and Ornella Muti
I'm going to start gathering DVD's starring my favorite Eurobabes. Not only were Sylvia, Edwige and Ornella excellent actresses, but they were also fearless women who relish being women, and that's...
View ArticlePRIMAVERA MORTAL (1971)
Primavera mortal (1971), directed by Stevan Petrovic and Miguel iglesias Bonns Read More
View Articledefinitive A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1984) now available
Don't let the TV origins fool you. Clive Donner's A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1984) is shot like a feature film on 35mm film. It is elaborately produced in fine Victorian style. It really is a superior film in...
View ArticleDON'T CALL ME CRAZY ON THE FOURTH OF JULY directed by Richard Pell
I knew this guy years back when I was a kid. Anyone from the DC area in the 80's into mid 90's was familier with Mr. Robert Lansberry. He would walk around the street of DC handing out xeroxed...
View ArticleTHE SACRIFICE ON BD
Tarkovsky's last brilliant film THE SACRIFICE, which he made while dying of Cancer, is going to be on BD soon thanks to KinoI sure hope Eric or Gary gets a screener for DVDBeaver. (The film has yet...
View ArticleBrighton Rock on BR
My all-time favorite British crime noir has been remastered for Blu-ray:http://www.amazon.co.uk/B...Z6IBE...Read More
View Article¿ CaboBlanco (AvcoEmbassy, 1980) ?
This was the most interesting film Charles Bronson and J. Lee Thompson made together.I think it was filmed in Peru or Argentina somewhere, but I haven't seen it in a...Read More
View ArticleRichard recommends
The only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Until now...S...Read More
View ArticleR.I.P., Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011)
The Guardian:"Gualtiero Jacopetti obituary" (August 18, 2011)http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/18/gu...Read More
View ArticleMartha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
This may not be sold as horror, but it's one of the scariest films of recent years. It belongs to the rare breed of deliberately paced psychological meltdown movies such as Repulsion and Read More
View ArticleSergei Parajanov
I did a quick search but couldn't find any discussions of Sergei Parajanov's amazing films - any one else here a fan?I have only seen a five of his films so far: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Legend...
View ArticleNew Year's Viewing.
Has anyone seen John Huston's THE DEAD?THE DEAD is taken from the book The Dubliners by James Joyce.It takes place during a New Years Party in Dublin. The movie is a character study that ends in...
View ArticleIncest-themed Turkish film sparks contraversy
A new Turkish film with reportedly a theme about an implied incestous relation between a father and his pre-teen daughter, titled DERİN DÜŞÜN-CE, has caused a huge contraversy at a festival where it...
View ArticleDaniel Alfredson's ECHOES FROM THE DEAD (SKUMTIMMEN)
An English-subtitled trailer for Daniel Alfredson's Echoes from the D...Read More
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