Jean Renoir’s Technicolor Collaboration with Anna Magnani Receives a Crucial Restoration on Blu-ray
DIRECTED BY JEAN RENOIR/FRENCH/1952
BLU-RAY STREET DA...
Call it contrived, but back when this movie came out, audiences couldn’t get enough of such randomly colliding narratives. Not everything that’s set up pays off, but various performances have stood the test of time. Mazursky’s downtrodden filmmaker has stuck with me since my initial viewing all those years ago. To only slightly lesser degrees, the same is true of Mason, Aiello, and Spader. And of course, who could forget Theron in this movie?
Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton Musical Dances out of Obscurity
DIRECTED BY NORMAN Z. McLEOD/ 1950
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 13, 2024/KL STUDIO CLASSIC...
It’s a minor miracle that the film exists at all, given its troubled path to completion. Originally a Fox Animation / Blue Sky Studios project, Nimona was thrown into limbo when Disney bought Fox and dissolved Blue Sky Studios. Much of the film had already been animated, and some of the voice actors (including Chloë Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed) were already cast, but the new executives in charge had issues with the LGBTQIA+ content of the film and were leaning toward cancelling the whole thing. Both Riz Ahmed and Chloë Grace Moretz spoke about the film in interviews, hoping that a studio would come along to finish and release the film.
The case goes cold in Japanese Pink Comedy
DIRECTED BY MOTOTSUGU WATANABE/JAPANESE/1998
DVD STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 6, 2024/REDEMPTION FILMS; SACRAMEN...
Ursula Andress aims for Riches in Fernando Di Leo Comedy/Action Hybrid
DIRECTED BY FERNANDO DI LEO/ITALIAN/1975
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JANUARY 30, 2024/RAR...
