Edward G. Robinson uncovers another killer, but this time he’s after a Nazi mass murderer, not an insurance salesman. Orson Welles’ most conventional thriller is a masterpiece of style and judgment, with a good sense of time and place – and a lot of expressive shadows. How does this new Blu-ray shape up in comparison to earlier presentations?
The Stranger
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1946 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 95 min. / Street Date August 29, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne, Billy House.
Cinematography: Russell Metty
Production Design: Perry Ferguson
Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino
Film Editor: Ernest Nims
Original Music: Bronislau Kaper
Written by Anthony Veiller, Decla Dunning, Victor Trivas
Produced by Sam Spiegel
Directed by Orson Welles
Up pops Olive Films with another Blu-ray of Orson Welles’ impressive The Stranger, for the first time an HD scan...
The Stranger
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1946 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 95 min. / Street Date August 29, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne, Billy House.
Cinematography: Russell Metty
Production Design: Perry Ferguson
Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino
Film Editor: Ernest Nims
Original Music: Bronislau Kaper
Written by Anthony Veiller, Decla Dunning, Victor Trivas
Produced by Sam Spiegel
Directed by Orson Welles
Up pops Olive Films with another Blu-ray of Orson Welles’ impressive The Stranger, for the first time an HD scan...
- 8/26/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
He's created a series of performances that have taken advantage of his intensity, his brutish physique and his way around a multi-syllable sentence – and now, Tom Hardy has somehow created a role for himself that feels more Tom Hardy than almost anything else he's done. In Taboo, the new FX series the actor co-created with father Chips Hardy and Peaky Blinders showrunner Steven Knight, he plays gruff protagonist James Delaney, an early 19th-century explorer who returns home to London to find out he's inherited land sought after by the East India Company.
- 1/17/2017
- Rollingstone.com
I guess Howard Hughes wanted to go easy on Minnesota Nazis. William Cameron Menzies directs a Cold War thriller about an insidious germ warfare conspiracy -- it's an early paranoid suspense tale with apocalyptic consequences. But the story behind the movie's making -- and then remaking -- is even more fantastic. The Whip Hand DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1951 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 82 min. / Street Date February 16, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 18.59 Starring Elliott Reid, Raymond Burr, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Otto Waldis, Michael Steele, Lurene Tuttle, Peter Brocco, Lewis Martin, Frank Darien, Olive Carey, George Chandler, Gregory Gaye. Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca Film Editor Robert Golden Original Music Music by Paul Sawtell Written by George Bricker, Frank L. Moss, Ray Hamilton Produced by Louis J. Rachmil Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Film writers Bill Warren and Tom Weaver have reported extensively on the unusual production story...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Film writers Bill Warren and Tom Weaver have reported extensively on the unusual production story...
- 6/4/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A significant new retrospective of the legendary and hugely influential Russian filmmaker is a fresh opportunity to see some gorgeous films on a big screen. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Ingmar Bergman called him the greatest director. Lars Von Trier calls him “God.” The legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who died in 1986 aged only 54, is one of the most influential in the history of the medium, a cinematic philosopher who was constantly at odds with the Soviet government, which saw subversiveness in his morosely dreamy films… as, indeed, there may well have been. Tarkovsky called his style of filmmaking “sculpting in time,” and the ambiguous moodiness of his work often encompassed a particular Russian-flavored tumultuousness on the small scale of a human life reflected against human history, full of tragedy, trauma, and torment. But...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Ingmar Bergman called him the greatest director. Lars Von Trier calls him “God.” The legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who died in 1986 aged only 54, is one of the most influential in the history of the medium, a cinematic philosopher who was constantly at odds with the Soviet government, which saw subversiveness in his morosely dreamy films… as, indeed, there may well have been. Tarkovsky called his style of filmmaking “sculpting in time,” and the ambiguous moodiness of his work often encompassed a particular Russian-flavored tumultuousness on the small scale of a human life reflected against human history, full of tragedy, trauma, and torment. But...
- 5/20/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Potential awards season contenders Truth from James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham’s I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams land world premiere slots, while Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right will close the festival.
London is the subject of the seventh annual City To City programme that features world premieres of Tom Geens’ Couple In A Hole starring Paul Higgins and Kate Dickie and Michael Caton-Jones’ Urban Hymn with Letitia Wright and Shirley Henderson. Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul gets a North American premiere.
The world premiere of Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is among five additions to the galas alongside Mr. Right, an action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Matthew Cullen’s Martin Amis adaptation London Fields and David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis get first public screenings in the Special Presentations roster with I Saw The Light.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring...
London is the subject of the seventh annual City To City programme that features world premieres of Tom Geens’ Couple In A Hole starring Paul Higgins and Kate Dickie and Michael Caton-Jones’ Urban Hymn with Letitia Wright and Shirley Henderson. Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul gets a North American premiere.
The world premiere of Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already is among five additions to the galas alongside Mr. Right, an action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Matthew Cullen’s Martin Amis adaptation London Fields and David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis get first public screenings in the Special Presentations roster with I Saw The Light.
Tiff top brass also unveiled the Contemporary World Cinema section, featuring...
- 8/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Paradise In Service and Lee Bo-Cheung’s Gangster Pay Day to bookend 19th edition.
The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) (Oct 2-11) today announced its line-up with the international premiere of Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Taiwanese film Paradise In Service as the opening film.
Niu and cast members will be on hand at the opening ceremony on Oct 2, to be emceed by Moon So-ri and Ken Watanabe.
Lee Bo-Cheung’s Hong Kong-China film Gangster Pay Day will receive its world premiere as the closing film on Oct 11. The director as well as stars Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi will be on hand to present the film.
Biff will screen 314 films from 79 countries with 98 world premieres and 36 international premieres.
All the 12 New Currents competition films are world or international premieres, including Amin Dora’s Ghadi, the first Lebanese film to screen in this section, and Jalal’s Story, directed by Abu...
The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) (Oct 2-11) today announced its line-up with the international premiere of Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Taiwanese film Paradise In Service as the opening film.
Niu and cast members will be on hand at the opening ceremony on Oct 2, to be emceed by Moon So-ri and Ken Watanabe.
Lee Bo-Cheung’s Hong Kong-China film Gangster Pay Day will receive its world premiere as the closing film on Oct 11. The director as well as stars Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi will be on hand to present the film.
Biff will screen 314 films from 79 countries with 98 world premieres and 36 international premieres.
All the 12 New Currents competition films are world or international premieres, including Amin Dora’s Ghadi, the first Lebanese film to screen in this section, and Jalal’s Story, directed by Abu...
- 9/2/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the Fipresci Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
- 7/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Special country focus on Turkey; youth programme moves to neighbouring Buzet.
The Motovun Film Festival is aiming to go back to its “radical roots” for the 17th edition’s programme, which runs July 26-30.
The main programme of 21 films is:
Kelly+Victor, Kieran EvansBad Hair, Mariana RondonBlack Coal. Thin Ice, Diao YinanBoyhood, Richard LinklaterAll Is Lost, J. C. ChandorStratos, Yannis EconomidesIda, Pawel PawlikowskiIn Order Of Disappearance, Peter MollandForce Majeure – Turist, Ruben OstlundVarvari, Ivan IkićAna Ana, Petr LomDjeca Tranzicije, Matija VukšićParis Of The North, Hafsteinn Gunnar SigurdssonFrank, Lenny AbrahamsonBroj 55, Kristijan MilićPolice Officer’s Wife, Phillip GroeningTribe, Miroslav SlaboshpitskyBlind, Eskil VogtHuman Capital, Paolo VirziFinal Cut, Gyorgy Palfi
A surprise film will be added later.
The unusual ‘jury in exile’ will be comprised of people live in exile, are under house arrest or experience travel bans. Femen’s Inna Schevchenko from the Ukraine will be in Motovun but remote jurors will include Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of the Belarus...
The Motovun Film Festival is aiming to go back to its “radical roots” for the 17th edition’s programme, which runs July 26-30.
The main programme of 21 films is:
Kelly+Victor, Kieran EvansBad Hair, Mariana RondonBlack Coal. Thin Ice, Diao YinanBoyhood, Richard LinklaterAll Is Lost, J. C. ChandorStratos, Yannis EconomidesIda, Pawel PawlikowskiIn Order Of Disappearance, Peter MollandForce Majeure – Turist, Ruben OstlundVarvari, Ivan IkićAna Ana, Petr LomDjeca Tranzicije, Matija VukšićParis Of The North, Hafsteinn Gunnar SigurdssonFrank, Lenny AbrahamsonBroj 55, Kristijan MilićPolice Officer’s Wife, Phillip GroeningTribe, Miroslav SlaboshpitskyBlind, Eskil VogtHuman Capital, Paolo VirziFinal Cut, Gyorgy Palfi
A surprise film will be added later.
The unusual ‘jury in exile’ will be comprised of people live in exile, are under house arrest or experience travel bans. Femen’s Inna Schevchenko from the Ukraine will be in Motovun but remote jurors will include Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of the Belarus...
- 7/8/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Special country focus on Turkey; youth programme moves to neighbouring Buzet.
The Motovun Film Festival is aiming to go back to its “radical roots” for the 17th edition’s programme, which runs July 26-30.
The main programme of 21 films is:
Kelly+Victor, Kieran EvansBad Hair, Mariana RondonBlack Coal. Thin Ice, Diao YinanBoyhood, Richard LinklaterAll Is Lost, J. C. ChandorStratos, Yannis EconomidesIda, Pawel PawlikowskiIn Order Of Disappearance, Peter MollandForce Majeure – Turist, Ruben OstlundVarvari, Ivan IkićAna Ana, Petr LomDjeca Tranzicije, Matija VukšićParis Of The North, Hafsteinn Gunnar SigurdssonFrank, Lenny AbrahamsonBroj 55, Kristijan MilićPolice Officer’s Wife, Phillip GroeningTribe, Miroslav SlaboshpitskyBlind, Eskil VogtHuman Capital, Paolo VirziFinal Cut, Gyorgy Palfi
A surprise film will be added later.
The unusual ‘jury in exile’ will be comprised of people live in exile, are under house arrest or experience travel bans. Femen’s Inna Schevchenko from the Ukraine will be in Motovun but remote jurors will include Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of the Belarus...
The Motovun Film Festival is aiming to go back to its “radical roots” for the 17th edition’s programme, which runs July 26-30.
The main programme of 21 films is:
Kelly+Victor, Kieran EvansBad Hair, Mariana RondonBlack Coal. Thin Ice, Diao YinanBoyhood, Richard LinklaterAll Is Lost, J. C. ChandorStratos, Yannis EconomidesIda, Pawel PawlikowskiIn Order Of Disappearance, Peter MollandForce Majeure – Turist, Ruben OstlundVarvari, Ivan IkićAna Ana, Petr LomDjeca Tranzicije, Matija VukšićParis Of The North, Hafsteinn Gunnar SigurdssonFrank, Lenny AbrahamsonBroj 55, Kristijan MilićPolice Officer’s Wife, Phillip GroeningTribe, Miroslav SlaboshpitskyBlind, Eskil VogtHuman Capital, Paolo VirziFinal Cut, Gyorgy Palfi
A surprise film will be added later.
The unusual ‘jury in exile’ will be comprised of people live in exile, are under house arrest or experience travel bans. Femen’s Inna Schevchenko from the Ukraine will be in Motovun but remote jurors will include Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of the Belarus...
- 7/8/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
London, Feb. 1: A real-life castaway has claimed to have survived for 16 months adrift on boat by catching turtles and birds with his bare hands.
The emaciated man had long hair and a beard, and claimed to have been drifting in the 7.3-metre-fibreglass boat since setting out from Mexico, more than 12,500 km away, for El Salvador on September 2012, the Guardian reported.
The man, dressed only in a ragged pair of underpants, told his rescuers on Thursday that his companion had died at sea several months ago.
The man had said his name was Jose Ivan, but as he speaks only Spanish, further details are sketchy. There was no fishing equipment on the propeller-less-boat, but a turtle was found inside when it washed up on.
The emaciated man had long hair and a beard, and claimed to have been drifting in the 7.3-metre-fibreglass boat since setting out from Mexico, more than 12,500 km away, for El Salvador on September 2012, the Guardian reported.
The man, dressed only in a ragged pair of underpants, told his rescuers on Thursday that his companion had died at sea several months ago.
The man had said his name was Jose Ivan, but as he speaks only Spanish, further details are sketchy. There was no fishing equipment on the propeller-less-boat, but a turtle was found inside when it washed up on.
- 2/1/2014
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
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