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Criterion Collection: Destry Rides Again | Blu-ray Review

George Marshall’s classic comedy Western Destry Rides Again finally gets its due with its inclusion in the esteemed Criterion Collection. A notable entry in...

Wilder Concocts an Affair to Remember in Underrated A Foreign Affair (1948) | Blu-ray Review

One of a handful of Billy Wilder’s underrated films is the dark romantic comedy A Foreign Affair (1948), which was filmed in the bombed-out...

Tuesday Blus: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet’s Moses and Aaron / Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Happy Hour

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Moses and Aaron (1975) - Grasshopper, For Love of Ivy (1968) - Kino, The...

No Highway in the Sky | Review

German import Henry Koster, like many of Hollywood’s studio directors, is not a name many remember despite having been responsible for a quite a...

Witness For the Prosecution | Blu-ray Review

As far as pulpy vintage courtroom dramas go, Billy Wilder’s 1957 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s famed play, Witness for the Prosecution, is hard to...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.