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Den har länge varit otillgänglig men nu går det äntligen att återupptäcka Jan Troells äventyrsfilm från 1982. Johannes Hagman har sett den.
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Flight to Salvation: The King’s Choice
By Jake Rutkowski. About twenty minutes into The King’s Choice, it hits me: I know absolutely nothing about Norway’s political history. Nor its governmental structure. Nor its involvement in World War […]
Oneiric Noir: The Chase (1946) from Kino Lorber
By Tony Williams. Based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear, The Chase (1946) has long required a remastered DVD version though bootleg versions previously available may have added to […]
Prison of the Mind: The Big Knife (1955) from Arrow Academy
By Jake Rutkowski. There are few time capsules more compelling to me than works in which Golden Age Hollywood peels back the curtain on its own sordid affairs. What normally proceeds is melodrama in the […]
Dying To Live Another Day: Realive
By Elias Savada. The general belief that there is seemingly civil attitude toward one another in our planet’s clean, sterile looking future reflects the sci-fi genre’s long-standing notion that […]
Early Black Cinema Recovered: Lost Boundaries (1949)
By Louis J. Wasser. In the late 1940s, a man from New Hampshire named Albert Johnston, Jr. wrote a letter to film documentarian Louis de Rochemont. Johnston, in his early 20s, alluded to the book […]
Knowing Our Past: An Interview with Legendary Tunisian Actor Fatma Ben Saidane
By Matthew Fullerton. With a career spanning some forty years and upwards of fifty films, plays, and radio and television shows, Fatma Ben Saidane is one of the most recognizable and important actresses, not only […]
Enjoyable Traces: After The Fox (1966) from Kino Lorber
By Tony Williams. Back in 1965 BBC TV screened a documentary introduced by Dirk Bogarde, The Epic that Never Was, an informative analysis of a 1937 failed film version of I, Claudius that would have […]
The Charming “Lithuanian Cary Grant”: Walter Matthau in Hopscotch on Criterion
By Christopher Weedman. Walter Matthau (1920-2000) was among Hollywood’s most charismatic stars of the late 1960s and 1970s. During this fascinating period where New Hollywood favorites such as Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, […]
A Lumbering Beast: Woodshock, Woodshlock
By Elias Savada. The answer to whether smoking kills lies beneath the surface of this abstract but ultimately empty-plotted first feature from sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, better known for having created the designer […]