Tag: Robert Mitchum

Daughters of Darkness: Losey’s Neglected, Eccentric Psychodrama “Secret Ceremony” Resurrected | Blu-ray Review

“It’s Time to Speak of Unspoken Things,” read the tagline for Joseph Losey’s 1968 psychodrama Secret Ceremony, a bizarro bit of tawdriness about two...

Tuesday Blus: Stanley Kramer’s Not as a Stranger & Andy Muschetti’s It

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Not as a Stranger (1955) – Kino Lorber, The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991)...

Foreign Intrigue | Blu-ray Review

These days, the American movie going public is quite accustomed to seeing major motion picture based on a prior television series, as well as...

Criterion Collection: The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Blu-Ray Review

Those seeking a groove-tastic immersion in a gritty 1970s crime drama will want to pop Criterion’s new burn of The Friends of Eddie Coyle...

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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.