John Brahm directs this film noir by way of Gothic thriller, a shadowy suspense thriller in the Victorian era during the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Tag: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Blu-ray: ‘Deluge’ – The original end-of-the-world disaster movie restored
Deluge (1933) (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray, DVD), the original end-of-the-world thriller, is a curious and often fascinating artifact. Produced in 1933, before the production code came down on Hollywood, on a relatively modest budget, it imagines not just the destruction of civilization in (unexplained) earthquakes and cataclysmic storms but life after the flood, so […]
Blu-ray: ‘Cry of the City’ on Kino Lorber
Cry of the City (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) (1948) is a film noir that should be better known. It’s directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I […]