Hill 861 (Photo courtesy of Ron Osgood) Vietnam War veteran and filmmaker Ron Osgood shares one of his experiences from the production of his documentary Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War. I got off the plane in Da Nang, Vietnam on the second of what would be five trips interviewing North Vietnam Army… Read more »
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Imprint Films and Fun City Editions. Welcome to this month’s second installment of “Physical Media Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny,” where we will be completing the balance of April’s frankly unique and welcomingly diverse crop of Blu-ray titles. For the remainder of the month we’ll… Read more »
Guest post by Katelyn Wo. The documentary And Then They Came for Us recounts the testimonies of some of the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in prison camps during World War II after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, ordering all Americans who held at least 1/16 Japanese heritage to… Read more »
Full transparency: All Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber, Criterion, Code Red, and Arrow Video. This month’s round-up is an eclectic bunch, which, if you know me at this point, is a good thing. Things are beginning to lean towards the change of seasons thematically. There is a Carl Reiner/Steve Martin comedy-noir collab called… Read more »
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber and Criterion. After last month’s technical gaff that lead me to record my reviews straight from the dome, I decided to stick with the audio format and spice it up a little. However, I’m still here to give you what insight I have to this month’s Blu-ray releases…. Read more »
Why do people watch Come and See (1985), Russian director Elem Klimov’s film about a young man trying to survive World War II in what is now Belarus? The events of the film are so disturbing that they age its teenage protagonist Flyora and turn his hair white. The images that Klimov, his co-writer Adamovich,… Read more »