Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean’s epic adventure based on the true-life story of T.E. Lawrence (played by Peter O’Toole in a compelling, complex performance), is the most beautiful big screen film ever made, which means it’s grandest attributes suffer on video no matter how big your screen is. It’s also a fiercely intelligent drama […]
One of the best zombie shockers of the 1970s, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974), also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don’t Open the Window, is a real international affair. Inspired by George Romero’s genre-shattering Night of the Living Dead, this Spanish/Italian co-production was shot in the English countryside by a Spanish […]
Boomerang (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) from 1947 picked up the semi-documentary strain of American crime drama that was born in the 1945 The House on 92nd Street (also from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) and improved upon the original. It’s also produced by Louis de Rochement and features the disembodied voice of narrator Reed […]
