Garv’s Pick of the Week: El Vampiro Negro (a.k.a. The Black Vampire, Flicker Alley)
For the release week of November 1st:
El Vampiro Negro (The Black Vampire) [Blu-ray / Flicker Alley]: The Film Noir Foundation have once again teamed with the UCLA Film and Television Archive to restore and release a lesser-known (but highly regarded) noir title on Blu-ray through Flicker Alley. Their previous releases have all been of outstanding quality, so I can safely recommend this Blu-ray sight unseen. This time, the FNF/USCL/Flicker Alley trio have tackled a 1953 Argentinian feminist remake of Fritz Lang’s M. That sounds mighty intriguing.
Additional Titles of Interest —
Daisies [Blu-ray / Criterion]: This 1966 Czechoslovakian surrealist film from writer-director Věra Chytilová is overdo for a Criterion Blu-ray.
Wuthering Heights [Blu-ray/ Sandpiper Pictures]: This 1970 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is directed by Robert “Phibes” Fuest and stars Timothy “Bond, James Bond” Dalton.
Piranha [4K UHD / Scream Factory]: Joe Dante’s Jaws rip-off is better than any of the Jaws sequels.
The Classic Christmas Specials Collection [4K UHD / Universal]: Universal and Warner Brothers waited a whole day after Halloween to release several Christmas titles on 4K UHD. This set includes the Rankin/Bass TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus in Coming to Town, and Frosty the Snowman.
Holiday Inn [4K UHD / Universal]: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Marjorie Reynolds star in the 1942 film that gave us the holiday standard “White Christmas.”
A Christmas Story [4K UHD/ Warner Brothers]: “You’ll shoot yer eye out, kid.”
Elf [4K UHD/ Warner Brothers]: “You sit on a throne of lies.”
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation [4K UHD/ Warner Brothers]: This is the best of the Vacation series, for what that’s worth.
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