Gorgeously presented by the British Film Institute, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life has just arrived on region 2 DVD and is now available in Media Services. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3074 Released in 1956, less than a year after Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life stands next to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows […]
Continue readingGuilty Pleasures – 100 Best Directors Ever lists – this one according to UK film rag Total Film
These are fun to read, mostly for the surprises in the countdown, but ultimately don’t mean anything. I know you’re curious so I won’t spoil it. link
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Undeclared: the complete series – DVD 3065-3068The Killers (1946, 1964) – DVD 3064Das Fräulein – DVD 3058Viva Cuba – DVD 3055Madeinusa – DVD 3052Iraq in fragments – DVD 3049
Continue readingStreaming video find: The Charlie Rose Archive
Over 4000 hours of interviews. Searchable and categorized for browsing too. This is an amazing archive of contemporary culture covering some of the most remarkable people from the arts and sciences as well as business, government, sports, and journalism. link
Continue readingCool find: Animator Sally Cruikshank’s films on YouTube
I’d seen a few of these, Quasi at the Quackadero and Face like a frog, and didn’t realize she done so many others. Cruikshank made her name in the late seventies with an animation style that was heavily influenced by early animation pioneers Max and Dave Fleischer. I’d wondered what became of her and am […]
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? – DVD 3017Coeurs = Private fears in public places – DVD 3016Leonard Berstein’s young people’s concerts – DVD 3001-3009Performance – DVD 3000
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Sílení = Lunacy – DVD 2999Amarcord – DVD 2996Extras: season 2 – DVD 2992Extras: season 1 – DVD 2991Jackie Brown – DVD2988Renaissance: Paris 2054 – DVD 2986Shakespeare retold – DVD 2985
Continue readingWatch Pull My Daisy (1959) on google video…
Robert Frank’s half-hour, black-and-white short film, Pull my daisy can be seen here. Featuring narration written and performed by author Jack Kerouac, the film presents an affectionate portrait of beat culture at its height through the jazzy retelling of a long, rambling evening filled with literary improvisation, philosophical discussions, and playfully foolish behavior. The fun […]
Continue readingObits: Swedish Auteur Ingmar Bergman, 89, and late-night TV talk show host Tom Snyder, 71
Not much ties these two together except that they died on the same day. Here a list of the 24 Bergman films we have in Media Services in various formats:Ansiktet = The Magician (1959) HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 283Camera (1975) VHS 1237Cries and whispers (1972) HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 319, VHS 319Djävulens öga = The […]
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Zodiac – DVD 2982An unreasonable man – DVD 2981The lady in question is Charles Busch – DVD 2980Hauru no ugoku shiro = Howl’s moving castle – DVD 2977
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