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Well, I finally found time to speculatively tint Lubitsch's THE OYSTER PRINCESS (1919).

Coming soon to 4K UHD from Hammer Films

The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) 4K UHD

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Ford Focus: Joseph McBride on 7 WOMEN (1965) John Ford's biographer on restoring the reputation and missing footage from Ford's beleaguered swan song

The Warner Archive Blu-ray of 7 Women (1965) comes out today, so I interviewed John Ford biographer Joseph McBride about his personal history with this much maligned masterpiece + the 6 minutes of missing footage he is seeking to restore: oldnew.substack.com/p/ford-focus...

The recent Film Heritage Foundation 4K restoration of Shyam Benegal's MANTHAN (India, 1976) is coming to Blu-ray via @secondrun.bsky.social in October 2025. A classic of Indian Parallel Cinema.

More details here on the special features which includes a new essay on the film by me:

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Winterstürme (Otto Rippert, 1924)
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one of the great monologues in cinema, and the perfect rejoinder

RIP Terence Stamp

THE RAT'S KNUCKLES (1925) (expanded) - Charley Chase YouTube video by Dave Glass

Here's a find: an enterprising YouTuber stitched together missing bits from this excellent Leo McCarey 1-reeler THE RAT'S KNUCKLES for a more or less complete version. No upscaling or any similar hanky panky. Must watch til end!

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Kermit, god's favorite orange tuxedo cat is posing with a giant 4k boxed set of Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, which features the original VHS cover art as a siip-cover option. Kermit is lying on a table and he is probably thinking, "why does she think I am a model?". In the background a dvd case is visible, and to the right, an open-faced window is somewhat visible.

the booklet for Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. On the left, an image from the film can be seen featuring a large bald man with blood trickling down his mouth, and onto a ravaged article of clothing. His eyes are closed and he seems more dead because of it. To the right is a page of words with the title "THE ECSTASY OF DYING" by Willow Maclay

Kermit is so stoked about Arrow's new 4k release of Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. I'm super proud to have an essay in the booklet. It's about finding pleasure in Fulci's aesthetic representations of gore. I think it's one of the best things I've ever written. Hope y'all love the set.

a comic with a young kid saying oh! I chased the pussy and now I'm lost!

some days it be like that

COMING TO BLU-RAY DISC ON AUGUST 26th from THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION! New 2025 1080p HD master from 4K scan of the original camera negative John Ford’s “SEVEN WOMEN” (1966) BD-50 Running Time: 87 Minutes COLOR Aspect Ratio: 16x9 2.35:1 Letterbox Audio Specs DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono NOT RATED Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH Cast: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson Directed by John Ford SPECIAL FEATURES: Oscar®-winning M-G-M cartoon “THE DOT AND THE LINE” (HD), Original Theatrical Trailer In the final film of an illustrious career that spanned nearly five decades, director John Ford breaks his old mold: famed for making westerns, he directed an “eastern”; accredited as a “man’s man” director, he created a film that starred not one, but a septet of women; and finally, known for big, outdoor films, he keeps the action confined within the walls of an isolated mission in China, circa 1935. Anne Bancroft is superb as a tough, realistic, cynical doctor who locks horns with the domineering head of the mission (Margaret Leighton), a woman of strict moral values. But when their ordered world is shattered by invading bandits, gallantry, courage and sacrifice – traits common to all Ford films- rise to the surface in a most startling fashion. Yes, Seven Women is a departure. But in true John Ford fashion, it explodes with the same dramatic truth and visual intensity that have forever enshrined him as one of the cinema’s true poets.

passion chef d'oeuvre tardif de John Ford

Video Crusading Episode 1: Devan Scott on Arrow Video's Dollars Trilogy 4K restorations YouTube video by Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader

I stopped by @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social's Youtube channel to discuss the new Arrow 4k releases of Sergio Leone's DOLLARS trilogy. There's nobody better than Spencer in the home video technical criticism space, and we had a terrific conversation.

Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 August–4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with @sabzian.bsky.social

The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025 What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...

I wrote about Godard's posthumous films for @sabzian.bsky.social www.sabzian.be/text/the-las...

Y en marzo... esta maravilla de @pierreleon.bsky.social. Dos años duros de trabajo (y nos adelantamos a los franceses...):

This is your reminder that Israel should not exist.

Le Jour d'après
Edvard Munch
Date : 1894 - 1895

La Ronde de l'aube / The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk, 1958
Adaptation du roman de William Faulkner "Pylône"
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For those of you who don't already know I have written a book on Indian Parallel Cinema which is will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK, US & India in Jan/Feb 2025.

Pre-order below. Hardback will be a bit pricey but paperback will be released 12 months later.

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A taste of coming attractions.

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No finis to the film unless
The ending is your own.
Turn off the lights, remind
The operator of his union card:
Sit forward, let the screen reveal
Your heritage, the logic of your destiny.
- Weldon Kees, ‘Subtitle’ (1936)

A photograph of a hand with the index finger being displayed. A blue ink mark is spread over part of the skin, cuticle and nail, a sign that a person has voted in an election in India.

Maharashtra friends, hope you are voting out the BJP alliance in large numbers 🤞🏾

follow @severalfutures.bsky.social if you wanna keep up with my distribution work!

PRESENTING...THE CAST OF GODARD'S KING LEAR (1987)

Deadpan in Nulltown Richard Fleischer's _Follow Me Quietly_ (1948) holds at its center an image so odd and resonant that its phantoms crowd the surface.

Follow Me Quietly -- Deadpan in Nulltown

in 2013 B. Kite and Bill Krohn published this seminal article on Fleischer's heavy hitting B-noir. It was published on MUBI notebook as an expansion of previous works. A movie of ghosts, the truly unusual, the avant-garde.

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John Ford chugging a bottle of beer

Pappy time

Fun fact about Godard's King Lear: It was so obscure that Tarantino used to tell interviewers he was in it, confident no one would ever catch on since the film was nearly impossible to get ahold of.