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Blu-ray Review – The Last Warning
Flicker Alley has brought the long-lost 1928 silent classic, The Last Warning, to Blu-ray! The film opens during a theatrical production, during which one of the main actors dies inexplicably and disappears. Years later, the cast returns to the theatre to appear in a revival of the same production – an awkward reunion that has […]
Blu-ray Review: WE
Artsploitation will release Rene Eller’s controversial drama, We, on Blu-ray in three weeks. We focuses on a group of eight bored teenagers in a Belgium-Dutch town who suddenly decide to make a little extra cash by starting a brothel, as well as filming amateur porn films. They have a great time in their own little […]
Walking with Lilith: A Diary, Part 2
The first day of the Lilith shoot, I was terrified. And it showed. Yes, I was working with some of my best friends, but I was also working with some folks that I was just getting to know. To top it all off, that weekend, we were shooting the heaviest scenes in the script, on […]
Blu-ray Review: This Magnificent Cake!
Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef’s medium-length stop motion animated film, This Magnificent Cake! has arrived to Blu-ray via Kino Lorber and GKIDS. The film takes place in colonial Africa in the 19th century, and it unfolds in five different segments. Each segment deals with specific characters who are driven by wealth and greed. […]
Blu-ray Review: Derek Jarman’s THE GARDEN
Derek Jarman’s 1990 avant-garde epic, The Garden, has been released on Blu-ray by way of Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films. The Garden is one of the last films that artist Derek Jarman created before he passed away from AIDS in 1993. It is a tapestry of different images and vignettes – most of them religious […]
Thoughts on ‘Fat Girl’
Catherine Breillat‘s 2001 film, Fat Girl, is, above all things, a mood piece. A brutal tale of sexual awakening, with a sense of dread that hangs onto every scene, leading to that powerful and complicated ending. It’s in the way that Breillat places subtle ominous tones into the sound mix. It’s in the haunting songs […]
Film Review: Innocence
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s 2004 film, Innocence, is an ethereal masterpiece – relying on atmosphere, mood, and ambiguity to tell the story of a girl’s boarding school, where the new students arrive in coffins and there isn’t one male in sight. It is a walled community in the midst of a beautiful and mysterious forest. The girls […]
