"The Night of the Hunter" director Charles Laughton, born in England, found old weird America a poetic place, one caught between the polarities of love and hate. The hate came from Robert Mitchum's deadly preacher man, one of the great movie villains. The love? It flowed like the river from a shotgun-toting Lillian Gish. Criterion's … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
Blu-ray review: ‘The Sound of Music’
The hills are alive with "The Sound of Music" -- and a dusting of serious grain. That's the good and bad news about the long-awaited Blu-ray debut of the Julie Andrews classic. Previous home video versions of the 1965 musical failed to truly dazzle due to the source materials' age-related defects. Fox’s new Blu-ray eliminates most of the … [Read more...]