A Look at U2: UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD by Bradley Morgan
An informative, rewarding and exceptionally warm read from author and historian Bradley Morgan, U2 Until The End of The World is now available as a beautiful coffee-table hardcover edition from Weldon Owen’s Insight Editions. Distributed by Simon & Schuster, Morgan’s new guide to one of the most iconic rock bands in history is both an…
A Most Deceptive Web: Joe D’Amato’s Eleven Days Eleven Nights 2 from 88 Films 4K Blu-ray
88 Films continue their long-running Italian Collection Series with a new 4K and Blu-ray of Joe D’Amato’s Eleven Days Eleven Nights 2. Remastered from a new 4K scan from the original negative, this release gave me the opportunity to watch a film from one of my favorite filmmakers I’d never seen before. Loaded with hours…
ROSA (1986) from 88 Films Blu-ray
Less than two years before his landmark directorial debut AS TEARS GO BY hit theaters in 1988, noted auteur Wong Kar-Wai was spending everyday hustlin’, just like so many of his other peers who eventually created the nineties alongside him. Kar-Wai spent much of the eighties shuffling through the film industry in various roles, even…
The Sylvia Kristel Archives: Sylvia in the French Magazine RUSH, 1976.
Sylvia appeared on a 1976 cover of the French magazine Rush via their Cinema Special marking her beautiful collaboration with Roger Vadim on Une Femme Fidele. Sylvia’s eventually unmade dream project Madonna of the Sleeping Cars also gets a mention. This entire issue can be read and downloaded here at the indispensable Internet Archive.
The Sylvia Kristel Archives: Sylvia in Spanish LUI, 1978
Here are some lovely high quality scans of Sylvia Kristel from a 1978 edition of the Lui, the Spanish edition. If anyone has the cover of this magazine or knows the photographer, please let me know. I believe this was the 16th issue in the brief Spanish Lui run.
TRIPLE THREAT: THREE FILMS WITH SAMMO HUNG Blu-ray set from Eureka
Eureka follow-up their earlier acclaimed Three Films With Sammo Hung with a new limited edition collection featuring three rare Sammo related titles. Limited to just 2000 copies, Triple Threat: Three Films With Sammo Hung gathers together films from the seventies, eighties and the nineties and is highly recommended. Featuring 2 cuts of The Manchu Boxer…
Nobuhiko Obayashi’s THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN Blu-ray from Cult Epics
Cult Epics continue their excellent line of Nobuhiko Obayashi special edition Blu-rays with the lovely The Island Closest to Heaven (1984). A charming coming of age story and family film, The Island Closest to Heaven trades in some of Obayashi’s more chaotic cinematic traits for a more straightforward but still beautiful production. A vehicle for…
Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein from Radiance Blu-ray
Radiance deliver another fine limited edition Blu-ray box-set with Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein. Featuring excellent all new audio commentary tracks for each film by legendary film historian Tim Lucas along with a terrific set of visual extras, these three Blu-rays offer splendid presentations of three key Hossein works. I personally found this…
The Dreaming: Harry Kümel’s MALPERTUIS from Radiance Blu-ray
In the summer of 1972, English language film programmer and Boston Globe critic David Overby travelled to report on that year’s Cannes Film Festival. During his time there, Overby witnessed the mythic premiere of Harry Kümel’s Malpertuis. Recalling that the film shook what had been a festival of ‘generally unexciting cinema’ out of its stupor,…
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