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Movies Till Dawn: Due to Unforeseen Circumstances
“Zoot Suit” (1981, Kino Lorber) Filmed version of Luis Valdez’s , based largely on the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder case in Commerce and the ghastly racial animus that infected the subsequent trial. Valdez himself directs in a style that combines … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, RLJE Films, Scorpioon Releasing
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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Goes Straight to Hell
“Surf Nazis Must Die” (1987, Troma Films) A future California falls into lawlessness following a cataclysmic earthquake, and from the rubble rises a new Nazi regime (which includes LA Beat alumnus Michael Sonye) which aims to rule the beaches (and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, MVD Visual, Scorpion Releasing, Scream Factory, shout factory, Troma Video
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Movies Till Dawn: International House of Crime 2022
“The Beast Must Die” (1952, Flicker Alley) Argentinean adaptation, and the first of three film versions of the 1938 thriller by Nicholas Blake (pen name for Daniel Day-Lewis’s father, Cecil), with Narcisco Ibanez Menta as a mystery author who adopts … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cohen Media Group, Flicker Alley, Kino Lorber, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Crime and Punishment USA 2022
“The Long Goodbye” (1973, Kino Lorber) A slovenly, muttering Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) navigates two disappearances – a close friend and a Hemingway-style author –but finds his efforts thwarted at every turn by something worse than organized crime: an incestuous, … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, RLJE Films, Severin Films, The Film Detective, Warner Film Archives
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Movies Till Dawn: The People Next Door
“All Or Nothing” (2002, Severin Films) Studies in quiet (and not so quiet) desperation via three working class families in London, who respond to the millstone of daily life around their necks with a mix of heartbreak, defeat, and carelessness. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Dark Sky Films, Kino Lorber, Scorpion Releasing, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: Something/Everyone
“Whirlybird” (2019, Kino Lorber) Polarizing documentary about Los Angeles reporters Bob (now Zoey) Tur and ex-wife Marika Gerrard, who redefined news coverage in the 1980s and 1990s by using a helicopter to provide a perspective that alternated between omniscience and … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Music Documentary Mixtape
“Say Amen, Somebody” (1982, Kino Lorber) Sharp-looking transfer of director George T. Nierenberg‘s documentary on gospel music, which focuses two of its most celebrated performers (at least, within its own circles): singers Thomas A. Dorsey and Willie Mae Ford Smith. … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Gets Crazy (Epic-Sized Edition)
“Get Crazy” (1983, Kino Lorber) The stage crew of the Saturn Theater (played by the Wiltern in the midst of its 1980s renovation) works overtime to deliver a New Year’s Eve concert to a frenzied crowd while also contending with … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, New Beverly Cinema, RLJE Films, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Action Packed 2021 (Pagoda Theater Edition)
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021, Marvel Studios) After the swing and miss of “Black Widow,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe rights itself with this adaptation of its ’70s-era “Master of Kung Fu” series. “Kim’s Convenience” star Simu … Continue reading
FRANCE: A Perfectly Cast Film That’s More Than an Exquisite Homage to First World Angst
For FRANCE, philosopher-filmmaker Bruno Dumont once again partnered with cinematographer David Chambille and distributor Kino Lorber to project onto the screen the interior world of his characters in a multi-faceted film about the media industrial complex. In keeping with Dumont’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruno Dumont, France, Kino Lorber, Lea Seydoux
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