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Videophiled Cool and Classic: The most gothic ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Nosferatu’...
The 1943 Jane Eyre (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) stars Joan Fontaine as Jane, the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s classic gothic romance about a meek orphan hired by a brooding aristocrat to be governess to...
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Videophiled Essential: ‘Touch of Evil’ and ‘Double Indemnity’ on Blu-ray
Touch of Evil (Universal, Blu-ray) – Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic. It’s considered...
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Streamers: See Orson Welles’‘Too Much Johnson’ and Amazon’s Third Pilot...
Too Much Johnson, the Orson Welles film (or rather film project) that was long thought lost (the last print was reportedly destroyed in a fire in Welles’ Spanish home in 1970), was found a few years...
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Videophiled Masters: Orson Welles’‘Chimes at Midnight’ and ‘The Immortal...
Chimes at Midnight (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) has been difficult to see under any circumstances for at least the last three decades. It suffered from distribution issues during its original release (a...
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Videophiled Classic: ‘Private Property’ rediscovered and restored, plus new...
Private Property (Cinelicious, Blu-ray+DVD) – Put this 1960 film in the “Lost and Found” category. The directorial debut by Leslie Stevens, a playwright and screenwriter and protégé of Orson Welles,...
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