Here we have an Italian visual effects-driven cat-and-mouse caper film that hinges on a female antihero pulling one over on a highly respected and famously successful male master detective. Filibus outwits the tests of time at every twist.
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.
Chinatown Jewel Thieves are OUTSIDE THE LAW
DIRECTED BY TOD BROWNING/1920
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: OCTOBER 20, 2020/KINO CLASSICS
Priscilla Dean with more...
The German Expressionist Horror Classic Lives Again in This Stunning 4K Restoration.
DIRECTED BY PAUL WEGENER/1920
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: APRIL 14, 2020
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Valentino is a Toreador Caught up in Passion in 1922 Silent Classic.
DIRECTED BY FRED NIBLO/1922
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 11, 2020/KINO CLASSICS
An updat...
Three Stand-Alone Blu-ray Collections Celebrate the Earliest Offerings of Female Filmmakers.
DIRECTED BY: Various, including Alice Guy Blaché, Julia Crawfor...
That ninety years later such an accomplished and important work from a vital film artist as Alfred Hitchcock not only survives but thrives as a viable piece across three separate versions deeply reiterates the inherently malleable and fluid nature of movies. It can be said that there is no “definitive version”, and yet it’s a classic all the same. Thankfully, Kino Lorber provides all three major variations. That is why no collector of great should be without this Blu-ray special edition of… Blackmail.
DIRECTED BY SIDNEY OLCOTT
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 19, 2019/UNDERCRANK PRODUCTIONS
Little Old New York was produced by Cosmopolitan Pictures, a company ...
