Film

Disc Details Kino Lorber, 2019. Region A. Feature:  131 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1.  The Movie Back in 1991, Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs swept the Academy Awards, becoming the rare genre piece to take Best Picture, ...

The 1964 film Der Hexer, known in the US as The Mysterious Magician, is slightly different in structure than the usual German Kriminalfilm of the era. Often times these Edgar Wallace story adaptations include a title referencing the antagonist, usually ...

Mayu Akikawa is a young psychologist, awkwardly trying to find her bearings in a new hospital, when she is assigned a nameless young girl as her first patient. A recently orphaned victim of extreme mental and physical abuse, the “Mysterious ...

Come to Daddy (2019) is that most difficult of beasts to review: a film that has so much to recommend, including many secrets, successful twists, and brilliant performances, but giving away too much would spoil the movie. Loaded with uncomfortable ...

A Hyena in the Safe Despite the best efforts of prudes, decency leagues, and opponents of basic human pleasure, film in the 1960s was becoming liberated from the constraints that had been placed upon it. The willingness of the films ...

Bruce Davison, Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, and Catherine Burns in Last Summer (1969) Attention: This article contains spoilers for readers who have not seen “Last Summer”. Fifty years ago, 1969. Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, both pillars of the New ...

This sequence contains outtakes, alternate footage and clapperboard shots from “The Legend of Boggy Creek”. These 35mm elements were discovered during an extensive 4K restoration of the original camera negative by Eastman Kodak, part of The George Eastman Museum. While ...

The artwork on the old VHS covers of Nekromantik (1987), which featured a decaying corpse clutching a woman’s breast, might lead to the assumption that it’s a work of exploitation. While this particular image illustrates the marriage of sex and ...

“Very little comment here, save for this small aside: that the ties of flesh are deep and strong, that the capacity to love is a vital, rich and all-consuming function of the human animal, and that you can find nobility ...

*In memory of French film actress Edith Scob Although often referred to as a dark, gothic fairy tale, Georges Franju’s 1960 film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is perhaps more aptly described as a frozen, static fairy ...