Sometimes it’s like they read your mind—or just notice upcoming releases as you do. Whatever the case, I’m thrilled that the release of Terence Davies’ Benediction played (I assume!) some part in a full retro on the Criterion Channel this June, sad as I know that package will make me and anybody else who comes within ten feet of it. It’s among a handful of career retrospectives: they’ve also set a 12-film Judy Garland series populated by Berkeley and Minnelli, ten from Ulrike Ottinger, and four by Billy Wilder. But maybe their most adventurous idea in some time is a huge microbudget collection ranging from Ulmer’s Detour to Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard, fellow success stories—Nolan, Linklater, Jarmusch, Jia Zhangke—spread about.
Criterion Editions continue with Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, and Seconds, while Chameleon Street, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,...
Criterion Editions continue with Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, and Seconds, while Chameleon Street, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Chicago – Witches were always my monster of choice as a child. Their façade of maternal warmth that routinely gave way to fiendish malice was both scary and oddly funny. Actresses love playing this archetype because it allows them to break all the rules followed by photogenic starlets. The fun had by everyone in a witch’s cape—from Margaret Hamilton to Angelica Huston—is timelessly infectious.
My favorite witch in cinematic history is the one played by Cloris Leachman in Len Talan’s sublime, woefully overlooked 1987 adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, “Hansel and Gretel.” The film’s entire first half is one long, exquisite build-up to Leachman’s appearance, and it proves to be more than worth the wait. Her feigned grandmotherly kindness is hilariously kooky, as she makes a few Freudian slips about “cooking children—I mean, chicken.” But once Gretel creeps down the basement stairs to discover...
My favorite witch in cinematic history is the one played by Cloris Leachman in Len Talan’s sublime, woefully overlooked 1987 adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, “Hansel and Gretel.” The film’s entire first half is one long, exquisite build-up to Leachman’s appearance, and it proves to be more than worth the wait. Her feigned grandmotherly kindness is hilariously kooky, as she makes a few Freudian slips about “cooking children—I mean, chicken.” But once Gretel creeps down the basement stairs to discover...
- 6/21/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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