‘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.
Gus Van Sant
‘The Forest of the Lost Souls’ reviewed
❉ This black and white Portuguese horror is a game of two halves, Iain MacLeod finds.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford’
❉ An epic, lyrical, brooding, atmospheric western, a psychological study of a murder and a murderer.
John Hurt Remembered
❉ A tribute to Sir John Hurt, who David Lynch called “simply the greatest actor in the world.”
Moviedrome Redux: ‘To Die For’ (1995)
❉ Nick Clement presents his assessments of cinematic gems and cult oddities. This week, an ultra-vicious and gleefully nasty satire.
Joe Dallesandro, Superstar
❉ An appreciation of the underground star who “forever changed male sexuality on screen”, who turned 68 on December 31, 2016.