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Video Watchdog is the brainchild of Tim Lucas, and Tim Lucas is the King of the Nerds. He is a man whose attention to detail has recently ushered forth his magnum opus, the ultimate nerd testimony to a beloved subject, the book All the Colors of the Dark - Lucas's definitive, 1,128-page critical biography of Mario Bava, the Italian horror director. D.K. Holm chatted with Lucas about Bava, Italian Horror in general, and other horror film/movie buff nerdy goodness. Read article >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Best Friends, Hoaxes, and much more.
- What We're Watching: Jazz Singer, S. Daley and Red Road.
- Explore: Monsters n' creeps, and new DVDs, on GC Daily.
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Patrice Leconte's moving but light buddy picture is "a droll, poignant comedy enlivened by two terrific performances," wrote Premiere's Glenn Kenny - the two leads being Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon. Adds the LA Times' Kenneth Turan: "Too serious to be an out-and-out comedy, too funny not to be one, My Best Friend is a lot easier to enjoy than to classify." |
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Inspired by true events, Lasse Hallstrom's film stars Richard Gere as Clifford Irving, a charismatic and charming writer who persuades the world that he is the authorized biographer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes."Comedy and suspense, satire and shame are all mashed together--with breezy confidence," wrote David Ansen in Newsweek. Adds Peter Travers of Rolling Stone: "Gere gives 'em the old razzle-dazzle with his roguish charm and sharp comic timing. The surprise is the unexpected feeling he brings to this challenging role." |
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Put that awful 1979 Neil Diamond version of this story out of your head when we tell you about this incredible new three disc 80th anniversary edition of the original The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson. The film is most famous, of course, for being the first "talkie," though the actual talking part of the picture is limited. While it may be a relic more than anything, it's a pretty amazing relic. But even more treats are found on the two bonus discs, which include the a new documentary The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk and several other shorts on the subject, as well as a whole disc full of previously rare Vitaphone shorts from the period. Precious stuff. |
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With Stephanie Daley, writer/director Hilary Brougher achieves a mighty feat of making a film about religious education, child abandonment, miscarriage, infidelity and teenage sexuality that's neither lurid nor a polemic. And even with one character fighting for her life there are no Oscar-baiting monologues of hysteria (in fact, the most powerful scene in the film is completely silent). Like Brougher's debut film, Sticky Fingers of Time, Stephanie Daley uses a fragmented narrative to show how the interactions of two people stuck in a morass of denial inspires the other to lift themselves out of their stasis. Read review here >> |
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Red Road, writer-Director Andrea Arnold's notably assured feature debut (and winner of a jury prize at Cannes), tells a spare and haunting mystery about a Glasgow woman's growing obsession with a shadowy figure from her past. To give more information seems frankly unfair, with the movie doling out bits of information as though a precious commodity and the growing sense of dread building to a singular climax... Read review here >>
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