Blu-Ray: ‘William Castle at Columbia Vol. 1’
❉ Nobody did it better or had more fun than William Castle, the PT Barnum of celluloid shock.
Articles by Daniel Marner
‘D.O.A.: A Right of Passage’ on Blu-Ray
❉ DOA has existed in a pirate-video limbo for several decades now, and to finally see it cleaned up on Blu-Ray is a wonderful thing, writes Daniel Marner.
‘Ciao! Manhattan’ on Blu-Ray
❉ Emerging onto Blu Ray for the very first time David Weisman and John Palmer’s Ciao! Manhattan is an odd, fragmentary, fitfully impressive patchwork quilt of a movie.
‘Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin: Five Films (1968-1971)’ reviewed
❉ If you have never seen a full-fat Godard-Gorin joint before prepare to be…. Baffled? Bored? Attacked? Shell-shocked? Annoyed? Outraged?
“Body And Soul: I Give ‘Em To You”
❉ As Iggy Pop hits 70, we celebrate one of his most remarkable performances.
‘Scarred For Life Volume One: The 70s’
❉ A book about growing up in the dark side of the 70s with the darkest, most inappropriate pop culture ever.
Abel Gance’s ‘Napoleon’ (1927)
❉ “Cinema like this must be FELT as well as witnessed.” We report back from the BFI’s exclusive media preview of the restoration of Abel Gance’s silent epic, out this month.