Every once in awhile there is a home video release of a forgotten film that is so enjoyable that it deserves extra attention. Kino Lorber
Tag: Theater
“Would you mind telling me, what’s television? Burlesque with an antenna. That’s television!” — Jerry Biffle (Phil Silvers) in Top Banana (1954) If you’ve seen
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has given classic comedy lovers an early Christmas gift with the November 9th Blu-ray debuts of three hilarious movies by W.C.
I have a problematic relationship with the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera (1935). It is a movie that I dearly love and
For the release week of February 23rd: Garv’s Pick of the Week: The Belles of St. Trinian’s [Blu-ray / Film Movement]: Alastair “Scrooge” Sim plays the
“But, darling boy, they aren’t going to start killing people for writing bad notices. Are they?” — Meredith Merridew (Robert Morley) in Theatre of Blood
The general critical consensus around the work of the great writer-director Billy Wilder is that he had a great run of films in the 1940s
One of my cinematic blind spots has always been the Pre-Code early talkie musicals choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It isn’t that I dislike musicals. In
In the early 70’s, producer Ely Landau envisioned The American Film Theatre, an experiment in which classic plays would be filmed with top-notch actors and
As I anxiously await the March 26th Blu-ray release of the American Film Theatre production of The Iceman Cometh (1973), Kino Lorber has announced that
