Indicator’s series of Ozploitation films released on Blu-ray and UHD reaches 1981’s Dead Kids (also known as Strange Behavior). Review by Gary Couzens.
The BFI is to release Kurosawa Akira's last black-and-white film, the 1965 Red Beard, on Blu-ray, Apple TV and Amazon Prime in May.
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John Fontaine stars as a married woman with ambitions to climb the social ladder by targeting a wealthy bachelor in the 1947 Ivy, where what starts as a romantic drama takes an altogether darker turn. An initially uncertain Slarek soon found himself riveted by what subsequently unfolds on Indicator’s recently released Blu-ray.
Indicator’s series of Ozploitation releases, on UHD and Blu-ray, produced by Antony I Ginnane reaches 1980’s The Survivor, directed by David Hemmings and starring Robert Powell and Jenny Agutter. Review by Gary Couzens.
Before making the masterful Coach to Vienna and The Ear, director Karel Kachyna collaborated with his regular screenwriter Jan Procházka on Long Live the Republic!, an extraordinary and ambitious melding of reality, memory and fantasy set in late WWII Czechoslovakia. A mesmerised Slarek discovered an unexpected personal connection with its young protagonist on Second Run’s recently released Blu-ray.
Raoul Peck’s riveting, urgent and impossibly ambitious documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 scrutinises the authoritarian practices and tendencies of our times, with George Orwell as his guide. Jerry Whyte scans Peck’s busy collage of the dangers we face and probes the gaps in his account of Orwell’s life and work.
The sixth Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box, a three-disc DVD release from the BFI, includes nine films from 1954 to 1980. Review by Gary Couzens.
At last, a mainstream movie with no antecedents (OK, OK, it was adapted from a novel by Andy Weir, author of The Martian) or affiliation with any known and probably exhausted intellectual properties, an original film to enjoy on its own merits. With only one tiny caveat, Camus is greatly entertained by Project Hail Mary…