The disc provides a very strong introduction to silent German cinema, one of the most exciting periods in cinema history.
Scott Nye
Scott Nye
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s The Beast [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
The outstanding new Blu-ray release brings Borowczyk's controversial film before a whole new audience.
Episode 150 – Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal
Scott, David, and Trevor discuss the faith, doubt, optimism, and comedy in Ingmar Bergman's landmark 1957 film.
Scott Reviews Busby Berkeley’s The Gang’s All Here [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
The wartime musical sings and dances its way to gorgeous high-definition.
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
Borowczyk slides into the world of sexually explicit cinema.
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s Blanche [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
Borowczyk's medieval chamber piece comes to high definition.
Episode 149 – Howard Hawks’s Red River
Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Sean Hutchinson discuss genre-bending, sexuality, star personas, and depictions of morality in Hawks's first Western.
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s Goto, Isle of Love [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
Borowczyk's first live-action feature plunges us into a surreal, darkly hilarious dictatorship.
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s Short Films & Mr. and Mrs. Kabal’s Theatre [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
The first set of Arrow's Borowczyk releases provides a tremendous introduction to the filmmaker, and is of tremendous value all its own.
Scott Reviews F.W. Murnau’s Faust [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Murnau's final German film is the culmination of his accomplishments to that point.
Scott Reviews Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill [Blu-ray Review]
Suzuki's surrealist gangster picture comes to high definition in the UK.
Episode 148 – John Frankenheimer’s Seconds
Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Sean Hutchinson discuss the loneliness, regret, and longing in Frankenheimer's 1966 psychological thriller.
Scott Reviews Ernst Lubitsch’s Madame Dubarry [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Lubitsch takes a raunchy view of the years preceding the French Revolution.
Scott Reviews André de Toth’s The Other Love [Blu-ray Review]
The 1947 melodrama offers a wonderful Stanwyck performance in a rather tepid narrative.
Scott Reviews Elio Petri’s L’Assassino [Blu-ray Review]
Petri's debut is a fierce, uncompromising examination of the many ways one can damn oneself.