The New York Times Author: Dave Kehr Article Mentions
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THE LADYKILLERS John Pankow in William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A., available in a Blu-ray upgrade. This week Lionsgate is releasing new Blu-ray versions of three classic films licensed from the French media holding company StudioCanal. The revelation among them is not Jean-Luc Godards Contempt (1963) or Akira Kurosawas Ran (1985) both excellent films that have previously been released in fine standard-definition versions by the Criterion Collection but The Ladykillers, a 1955 comedy from Ealing Studios in Britain. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, The Ladykillers has been around too, but no earlier home video edition has done justice to its rich, bold use of Technicolor, that distinctively sharp-edged, cool-toned Technicolor that...(read more)
... THE LADYKILLERS John Pankow in William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A., available in a Blu-ray upgrade. This week Lionsgate is releasing new Blu-ray versions of three classic films licensed from the French media holding company StudioCanal. The re ...
... and his team. In October in The Times Mr. Scott called this a blunt and sadistic revenge thriller that occasionally pauses from the mayhem to stage a solemn debate about law, justice and morality. (Overture/Anchor Bay, Blu-ray $39.98, standard defin ...
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