George Stevens’ I Remember Mama is considering to be one his biggest achievements in the director’s career. The 1948 drama was based on John von Duten’s play, which was based the novel by Kathryn Forbes which was called Mama’s Bank Account. The film has a mighty fine cast with Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Sir…
Victims of Sin [Criterion Collection] Blu-ray Review
Ninón Sevilla is Violeta, a vivacious dancer, or rumbera, at Cabaret Changó but is soon plagued with mistreatment and assault at the hands of the suave but ruthless pimp Rudolfo. To make matters worse, Violeta loses her job at the cabaret when she rescues a baby from a trash can and brings it into work…
Misunderstood [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Andrea (Stefano Colagrande) is a boy who just found his mother has died, being told by his remote and stoic father John Duncombe (Anthony Quayle) after his mother’s funeral. Andrea has a younger brother, Milo (Simone Giannozzi), who is not told about his mother, with John wanting to spare Milo the sadness and let him…
The Shape of Night [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
The film introduces us to a jaded prostitute named Yoshie Nomoto (Miyuki Kuwano who I recognized from Kurosawa’s Red Beard as well as her earlier performances for Nagisa Oshima in Cruel Story of Youth and Night and Fog in Japan) whose latest client takes a shine to her and want to rescue her from the…
All I Desire Blu-ray review
One of the great directors of melodrama films in our history is German turned Hollywood director Douglas Sirk. He was a marvelous director, mainly known for his stylish dramas and romance themed films, particularly in the 1950s. Sirk’s career in filmmaking began in Germany during the 1930s. In 1937, Sirk left Germany not just to…
Deanna Durbin Collection I
Deanna Durbin Collection 1 Deanna Durbin was a child actress who had a somewhat of a short-lived Hollywood career as a singer and actress. She was mainly known for starring in romantic musical comedy films with her heyday being in the late 1930s. A few years later Durbin, as she was getting older, wanted to…
CAROLE LOMBARD COLLECTION I BLU-RAY REVIEW
Carole Lombard is one of the great leading ladies during the Golden Age of cinema. A wonderful actress whose career began during the silent era, starring and appearing in many romantic comedies and melodramas for several years until her untimely death in 1942 at the young age of 33. Kino Lorber has released a Blu-ray…
Room at the Top Blu-ray review
Room at the Top is a British melodrama about movie focusing on the familiar story about love affairs and love triangles which cause plenty of repercussions, as usual. Based on the novel of the same name that was written by John Braine, this is the story of a young ambitious, desires to rise ‘to the…