Brian De Palma unleashes 101 ferocious Hitchcock references for this great horror opus, all bolstered by Bernard Herrmann’s nerve-jangling music score. Plus a very young Margot Kidder and the impressive Jennifer Salt. It’s a fine revisit of an early Criterion disc, with some highly amusing extras — such as a surprising 1970 talk-show excerpt with Margo Kidder, Janis Joplin and Gloria Swanson.
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The Criterion Collection 89
1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date , 2018 / 39.95
Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Dolph Sweet
Cinematography Gregory Sandor
Production Designer Gary Weist
Film Editor Paul Hirsch
Original Music Bernard Herrmann
Writing credits Brian De Palma and Louisa Rose
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
Directed by Brian DePalma
In 1971, New York Filmmaker Brian De Palma was just beginning to become well-known among the hipper cinema literati … like Martin Scorsese and Paul Bartel, he was already a legend in...
Sisters
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 89
1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date , 2018 / 39.95
Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Dolph Sweet
Cinematography Gregory Sandor
Production Designer Gary Weist
Film Editor Paul Hirsch
Original Music Bernard Herrmann
Writing credits Brian De Palma and Louisa Rose
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
Directed by Brian DePalma
In 1971, New York Filmmaker Brian De Palma was just beginning to become well-known among the hipper cinema literati … like Martin Scorsese and Paul Bartel, he was already a legend in...
- 10/30/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Brian De Palma‘s shocking exploitation gut-punch, Sisters, is a perfectly orchestrated exercise in style, a staging of some of the finest suspense sequences since Alfred Hitchcock was above ground. Channeling the Master of Suspense’s gleeful enjoyment of audience manipulation, De Palma remarkably employs a trashy genre aesthetic to satirically explore issues of race and social alienation. It’s a film about outsiders — a starkly disturbing reminder that looks and appearances can be dangerously deceiving — that’s nevertheless less interested in soap-box statements than inducing audiences to squeal and squirm. Grim in its contemporary relevance, De Palma and co-writer Louisa Rose‘s political satire is ever-present but far from overt, quietly bubbling in the background. This is a film in which police officers respond to learning of the stabbing of an African-American man by hatefully grumbling, “Those people are always stabbing each other.”
The film’s opening scene launches...
The film’s opening scene launches...
- 6/17/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Once Upon A Time In The Existential West
By Raymond Benson
I never had a chance to see these two legendary westerns that were made back-to-back in the mid-1960s, presented by Roger Corman, directed and co-produced by Monte Hellman, and starring a young Jack Nicholson (among others), for they were elusive. I’d heard they were quirky, moody, and very different takes on the western genre, so I was excited to hear that The Criterion Collection was releasing both pictures as a double-bill on one Blu-ray disc. Now you, too, can view these strange little movies in all of their high definition glory.
Hellman was one of the few directors that producer Corman would let helm pictures for his studio, which at that time was famous for low-budget horror films, youth-in-rebellion pictures, and, later, rock ‘n’ roll counterculture flicks. Jack Nicholson was also involved with Corman since the late fifties,...
By Raymond Benson
I never had a chance to see these two legendary westerns that were made back-to-back in the mid-1960s, presented by Roger Corman, directed and co-produced by Monte Hellman, and starring a young Jack Nicholson (among others), for they were elusive. I’d heard they were quirky, moody, and very different takes on the western genre, so I was excited to hear that The Criterion Collection was releasing both pictures as a double-bill on one Blu-ray disc. Now you, too, can view these strange little movies in all of their high definition glory.
Hellman was one of the few directors that producer Corman would let helm pictures for his studio, which at that time was famous for low-budget horror films, youth-in-rebellion pictures, and, later, rock ‘n’ roll counterculture flicks. Jack Nicholson was also involved with Corman since the late fifties,...
- 12/1/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
After a lengthy hiatus that saw them explore solo albums and start families, the Strokes got back together in 2010 for a handful of reunion shows that were warmly received by the band's fans. There was a question as to whether their new music would be as strong as their early work (or whether they would even record fresh songs), but based on the reaction from the unveiling of their new single "Under Cover of Darkness" (available as a free download on the band's official site), it seems like the guys are as good as they've ever been.
"Under Cover of Darkness" sheds the buzzy warmth of the vibe the band crafted on their last effort (2006's First Impressions of Earth) in favor of a more straightforward brand of low-fi scuzz that recalls the songs from their debut (it also adds a little bit of Vampire Weekend-esque international jangle for good measure). Most importantly,...
"Under Cover of Darkness" sheds the buzzy warmth of the vibe the band crafted on their last effort (2006's First Impressions of Earth) in favor of a more straightforward brand of low-fi scuzz that recalls the songs from their debut (it also adds a little bit of Vampire Weekend-esque international jangle for good measure). Most importantly,...
- 2/10/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Photograph by Dan Saelinger
"People are sick of that tech look -- nylon, overly masculine," says Jason Gregory, owner and designer of Makr Carry Goods. Hence the Farm Ruck, which, like everything else from Makr, is hand-sewn in a workshop just outside of Orlando, Florida. The bag, inspired by a classic Duluth Pack, is made of thick canvas with straps of dense and durable horse leather.
The Farm Ruck hits the market at the perfect time. Alexander Wang, Chanel, and Marc by Marc Jacobs all sent reimagined rucksacks down the fall 2010 runway, but unlike their bags, the Farm Ruck is priced at just $150. That's ideal for what analyst Nikoleta Panteva of IBISWorld calls "aspirational shoppers," who account for 60% of accessories spending and buy "simple investment pieces at $300 or less."
Also on trend: Gregory's low-waste manufacturing process. While he doesn't consider Makr "green," his microproduction methods keep waste low -- he'd...
"People are sick of that tech look -- nylon, overly masculine," says Jason Gregory, owner and designer of Makr Carry Goods. Hence the Farm Ruck, which, like everything else from Makr, is hand-sewn in a workshop just outside of Orlando, Florida. The bag, inspired by a classic Duluth Pack, is made of thick canvas with straps of dense and durable horse leather.
The Farm Ruck hits the market at the perfect time. Alexander Wang, Chanel, and Marc by Marc Jacobs all sent reimagined rucksacks down the fall 2010 runway, but unlike their bags, the Farm Ruck is priced at just $150. That's ideal for what analyst Nikoleta Panteva of IBISWorld calls "aspirational shoppers," who account for 60% of accessories spending and buy "simple investment pieces at $300 or less."
Also on trend: Gregory's low-waste manufacturing process. While he doesn't consider Makr "green," his microproduction methods keep waste low -- he'd...
- 8/11/2010
- by Stephanie Schomer
- Fast Company
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