Posts Tagged ‘British cinema’
Twilight Time Presents European Dramas, American Musicals, and Zardoz
Caution: Musicals, intense British drama, and ’70s cinematic hallucinogens lie ahead.
Read MoreJourney to the Center of the Earth / First Men in the Moon Blu-rays Review: In & Out
Twilight Time explores the various space in-between the minds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.
Read MoreOur Mother’s House DVD Review: The Illegitimate Dawn of an Unofficial New Wave
Seven kids raised on religion, a dead mother, and a deadbeat dad. You do the math.
Read MoreThe Bounty (1984) / U Turn (1997) Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes South
The two best bad trips you can possibly book this season.
Read MoreAll at Sea [aka Barnacle Bill] DVD Review: Alec Guinness in Full (Multiple) Form
The Warner Archive Collection brings us the last genuine Ealing Comedy, which also features a young (and already bald) Donald Pleasance.
Read More‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time
From Streisand to Stone, controversies to conniving, this sextet offers it all.
Read MoreWhen the Wind Blows (1986) Blu-ray Review: Wild Is the Wind
So, anyone for a nuclear holocaust, then?
Read MoreThe Day They Robbed the Bank of England DVD Review: Introducing Peter O’Toole
A taut, well-crafted Victorian Era heist thriller that forged the way for many crime dramas to come.
Read MoreNasty Habits (1977) DVD Review: Nunsploitation of a Different Denomination
Watergate set in a convent. Seriously.
Read More2 by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff (1991) / Raining Stones (1993) Blu-ray Review: Depressingly Fascinating
Two low-key, very sincere movies about everyday, average people get a Hi-Def release from Twilight Time.
Read MoreJoanna Lumley’s Nile and Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey DVDs Review: Take a Tour with Patsy
Equally at home in drama or comedy, Joanna Lumley seems to have found a new calling in these travel programs.
Read MoreI Give It a Year (2013) Movie Review: In Which Funny People Save a So-So Story
In the age of disposable marriages, two newlyweds struggle to decide whether they can be bothered to make good on “till death do us part.”
Read MoreLife Is Sweet Criterion Collection DVD Review: The Chocolate Thrust of Life Itself
Mike Leigh’s wonderful Life Is Sweet is less a film about something and more a film about the thrust of life itself. It focuses on a family of four in North London as they try to eke their way through various curveballs and ongoing struggles. The performances are pitch-perfect, the dialogue crackles with realism, the…
Read MoreThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: It’s a Man’s Life in the Formerly Modern Army
A charming British film about a charming British man.
Read MoreOutlaw (2007) Movie Review: Vigilante Violence Without Narrative Conviction
Sometimes it’s not enough to want revenge and justice, you have to have a plot too.
Read MoreA Night to Remember (1958) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Stunning Presentation for a Genuine Classic
I’ve never paid to see James Cameron’s film, but I’d gladly pay ten-times over to see this one again and again.
Read MoreDavid Lean Directs Noel Coward Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Four Distinctly British Films From a Fruitful Partnership
David Lean’s first four films are presented here in glorious Blu-ray editions sourced from the 2008 BFI restorations.
Read MoreA Night to Remember Criterion Collection DVD Review: The Best Film about the Titanic Disaster
“The end of an era of arrogance.” – Producer William MacQuitty
Read MoreDavid Lean Directs Noel Coward Criterion Collection DVD Boxset Review: Box of Delights
A fascinating look at a winning creative partnership predating Lean’s later widescreen epics.
Read MoreThe Bed Sitting Room DVD Review: Post-Nuclear British Satire Hits the Mark
Richard Lester’s adaptation of the Spike Milligan and John Antrobus play is a sharp piece of surrealism.
Read MoreIf…. Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Portrait of the Student as an Angry Young Man
Malcolm McDowell is captivating in his film debut.
Read MoreThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Lives Again, Thanks to Martin Scorsese and the Film Foundation
Scorsese kicks off a two-week run of the restored classic at New York City’s Film Forum.
Read MoreFour Weddings and a Funeral Blu-ray Review: Not a Run-of-the-Mill Romantic Comedy
While it remains a delightful film 17 years later, it doesn’t reap much benefit from high definition.
Read MoreNaked Criterion Blu-ray Review: Anti-Hero’s Odyssey Through Thatcher’s London
Mike Leigh examines a generation lost after the economic and personal mess of the ’80s.
Read MoreWhistle Down the Wind Movie Review: The Best Film You’ve Never Seen
Unflinchingly satirical, though never disrespectful to people of faith.
Read MoreFish Tank Criterion Collection DVD Review: The Struggle to Escape Family Traditions
Andrea Arnold is at the top of her game with this film.
Read MoreFish Tank Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Andrea Arnold Primer
Worthwhile for its lead performances and continuing improvement of Arnold, but difficult to recommend as essential viewing.
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