Hollywood takes a hard look at the mundane horrors of mental asylums, and Olivia de Havilland scores another career high with her portrayal of a housewife experiencing a nervous breakdown. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka. available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date Ap/ 39.95

It’s the darkest and most subversive of Huac-era ‘noir’ westerns.ġ950 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 109 min. Barbara Stanwyck is the feisty heir who wages generational war on her piratical father. Jeffords maintains his sprawling fiefdom through economic tyranny (he prints his own money and expects banks to accept it) - and by simple violence, murdering the people that have lived on ‘his’ land for generations. This mini-epic spells out the ugly real-life Code of The West: seizing land and establishing private empires. When not making tons of money collaborating with James Stewart, Anthony Mann directed some really grim westerns. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimmġ962 / Color / 2:89 widescreen widescreen / 140 135 min. Featured stars are Claire Bloom, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden, Oscar Homolka, Martita Hunt, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Jim Backus, Terry-Thomas and Buddy Hackett a long-form docu goes into fascinating detail explaining how Dave Strohmaier and Tom March accomplished the mind-boggling restoration. The show has dancing, beautiful locations, a sequence with Puppetoons and a terrific animated dragon.

Their idealized biography is interspersed with three full fairy tale stories, about a magic cloak of invisibility, a cobbler’s helpful elves, and a pair of fearless dragon slayers. Laurence Harvey and Karl Boehm are the brothers that compiled the famed tales of princesses, witches, magic spells and fiery dragons. The big-scale Cinerama fantasy once thought unrecoverable is back - a terrific restoration brings us George Pal’s ode to fairy tales, filmed on Bavarian locations with an international cast. Night Moves (1975) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray reviewĭog Day Afternoon (1975) – Katt Shea’s trailer. Get Crazy (1983) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary Shampoo (1975) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray reviewīonnie And Clyde (1967) – John Landis’s trailer commentary Nashville (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Dan Perri’s trailer commentary The Awful Truth (1937) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray reviewĭuck Soup (1933) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

Rope (1948) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary The Innocents (1961) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary Hollywood Boulevard (1976) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The 1940 feature Remember the Night made its comeback a few years ago just as.ĭirector/Tfh Guru Allan Arkush discusses his favorite year in film, 1975, with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Sterling Holloway, Julius Tannen, Virginia Brissac, Fred ‘Snowflake’ Toones, Charles Arnt, Paul Guilfoyle.Īrt Directors: Hans Drier, Roland Anderson Street Date Decem/ available from Powerhouse Films UK / £18.99 The presentation includes two radio broadcasts plus a star-studded Paramount short subject for war bonds.ġ940 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 94 min. Sturges’ celebration of ‘country values’ is sincere and heartfelt, as is his affection for the supporting cast. Mitchell Leisen’s great Christmas-time tale has a brilliant screenplay by Preston Sturges and letter-perfect performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, threading the needle between light cynicism and well-earned sentiment.

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