Mostly, The Super Bob Einstein Movie functions as star-powered one-stop shopping for all the subject’s greatest hits, presented with all the fat cut out.
It’s both Air Force propaganda and a failed Howard Hughes vanity piece. It’s the final released film of legendary fallen director Josef von Sternberg. It began at one major studio and ended up at another. It’s got a redressed, drab, muddy Western set doubling for Russia in the film’s second half. It might be silly at times, but it’s never dull. There’s so, so, so much red meat here for a film historian to chew on.
Claude Rains and David Manners Meet Our Great Expectations in This Adaptation of an Unfinished Dickens Novel.
DIRECTED BY STUART WALKER / 1935
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For all of the grandeur, detail, and enormity of 1482 Paris depicted in this prestigious undertaking, this is, first and last, Lon Chaney’s show. It’s his presence and his 110-percent devotion to portraying Quasimodo that fuels this version of Hunchback to culturally persist when so many subsequent adaptations have been forgotten.
The Spider Woman Weaves a Dull Web in This Abortative Franchise Starter
DIRECTED BY ARTHUR LUBIN / 1946
STREET DATE NOVEMBER 2, 2021
KINO LORBER STUDI...
A Blobby, Gormless Mess of a Movie - That's Actually Really Good.
DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK / 1932
BLU-RAY STREET DATE 12/7/21
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Different From Some Of The Times, But Not Different From All The Times
DIRECTED BY: ROBERT ALTMAN/1973
STREET DATE: DECEMBER 7, 2021/KINO LORBER STUDIO...
