Videodrone Classic: ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu-Ray), Sam Peckinpah’s personal favorite of his films, opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current...
View ArticleVideophiled: Monte Hellman’s existential west
Criterion The Shooting / Ride in the Whirlwind (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – Director Monte Hellman and actor Jack Nicholson met while making a pair of war films for Roger Corman in the Philippines....
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Dillinger’ by Milius
John Dillinger was the most notorious of the Depression-era gangsters and his exploits (and attendant newspaper coverage) made him a romantic anti-hero to many of the folks who felt betrayed by the...
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Private Property’ rediscovered and restored
Private Property (Cinelicious, Blu-ray+DVD) – Put this 1960 film in the “Lost and Found” category. The directorial debut by Leslie Stevens, a playwright and screenwriter and protégé of Orson Welles,...
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