Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: WUSA (1970) Throughout cinema history there have been a number of movies that were ahead of their time. There are movies that flopped when they were first released and found an audience many years later. Then there are those movies that are waiting to be rediscovered. WUSAContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The Story of O (1975) With all the publicity, furor, not to mention box office success of 50 Shades of Grey (over $250 million globally so far), it seems only fitting to recall a much better film that essentially covers the same ground but was not nearlyContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Rather than offer up another Holiday themed movie for the December issue, I decided that it would be nice (and different) to offer up my favorite title of 2014 now that’s it available on DVD. Actually it’s been out for a littleContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1969) November is the month that features Thanksgiving so it seems quite logical to select a DVD that I am giving thanks for finally having made its appearance in a quality version. This new MGM Limited Edition DVD-R blows away the previous versionContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Horror of Dracula (1958) Of all the movies to be found in Terence Fisher’s output (see article this section), none is more highly regarded than Dracula (Horror of Dracula in America to distinguish it from Bela Lugosi’s Dracula which had just been reissued in 1958). Everything isContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The World According to Garp (1982) I was one of the last people, among those I knew, to jump on the Robin Williams bandwagon. I never watched a single episode of Mork & Mindy (not even in reruns) and I didn’t care for Williams’s standup comedy routinesContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Zardoz (1974) Of all the dystopian sci-fi flicks out there from Metropolis to Snowpiercer (see review this issue), none is more unique or more bizarre than British director John Boorman’s 1974 opus Zardoz. Back in the day it was what was known as a “head trip”. TheContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Judex (1963) If you’re in the mood for something a little out of the ordinary, look no further than this brand new Criterion release of the 1963 French thriller Judex. Director Georges Franju made the poetic horror film Eyes Without a Face (1959) about an obsessed plasticContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) While I was watching The Railway Man (see my review this issue), I was struck by how similar it was to a Japanese-English film that I had seen a number of years ago. That movie was Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence from 1983Continue Reading
