Being a film music aficionado can sometimes introduce you to some intriguing, never before heard of films. On Camus’ watchlist for decades was an oddly titled 1963 curio, scored by Jerry Goldsmith, called The List of Adrian Messenger directed by John Huston. Camus finally caught up with it… Release the hounds!
The May 4K UHD releases from, Arrow Video have been revealed as Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, Sergio Leone's The Dollars Trilogy, and Clive Barker's Nightbreed.
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Richard Rush’s 1980 The Stunt Man was ten years in the making and almost went unreleased when the studio didn’t know what to make of the result, but it’s reputation as a key work of American 70s cinema is now set in stone. It arrives on 4K in a dual UHD/Blu-ray package from Radiance on the Transmission label, and is reviewed by long-time fan Camus, with Slarek handling the technical specs and the majority of the special features.
Vernon Sewell’s accomplished B-movie from 1962, Strongroom, has a restoration and a new release on Blu-ray from the BFI, including among its extras his film from the previous year, The Man in the Back Seat. Review by Gary Couzens.
Emerald Fennell’s stock-in-trade is revenge intrigue with a smear of soft-porn perversion. Her high camp take on Emily Brontë’s Gothic firecracker should sizzle with transgressive heat but is curiously cold, conservative and phlegmatic. All artifice and no soul, it is a fleeting thing of the moment. If it is a sign of our times, Jerry Whyte wonders what it signifies.
The second of the BFI’s releases from the Associated-Rediffusion catalogue, Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain Volume 1 is released as a dual-format edition in which he looks at aspects of life, culture and famous people of the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Gary Couzens opens the time capsule.
After a couple of months away from the review desk due to difficult personal circumstances, Slarek gets to grips with the six British noir titles and the many hours of special features that make up Indicator’s splendid Blu-ray box set, Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain.
Five early films from the great American documentarian, Cinema Expanded: The Films of Frederick Wiseman, is a three-disc Blu-ray set from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.