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CHINATOWN and TO CATCH A THIEF Blu-ray Reviews

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: April 20th, 2012 at 9:28 am

Paramount is good about releasing classics on Blu-ray from time to time, and their latest batch offers one of the greatest films of all time, and an entertaining minor work by a master director. Chinatown is Roman Polanski’s masterpiece. It stars Jack Nicholson as a private dick assigned to find out about an affair that uncovers statewide corruption in California. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief offers Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the Riviera in beautiful Vista-vision. Both are definitely worth checking out on Blu-ray (if not purchased immediately) and our reviews of both follow after the jump.

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER and ALL ABOUT EVE Blu-ray Reviews

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: March 2nd, 2011 at 3:20 pm

It’s February, which makes this the time for romantic catalog titles to be reissued. For 20^th Century Fox, it’s the perfect time to put out classics like An Affair to Remember and All About Eve. All About Eve isn’t all that romantic, but the 60^th anniversary of the film was last year, so I guess it’s still sort of the 60^th anniversary. Affair stars Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as a playboy and a singer, respectively, who meet on a long boat ride and fall in love, while Eve stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, who takes in the titular Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) as an apprentice only to find that her motivations for getting close are not entirely noble. My review of both An Affair to Remember and All About Eve on Blu-ray after the jump.

Will Smith to Produce and Star in a Remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s SUSPICION

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 26th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

Latino Review reports that Alfred Hitchock’s Suspicion is getting remade with Will Smith attached to star and produce.  I agree with scooper “Pinche Taco” when it comes to Hitchcock: he can be imitated, but never remade…-ed.  For those who don’t know, Hitchcock’s 1941 film starred Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine and was about a woman (Fontaine) who marries a man (Grant) whom she eventually suspects is trying to kill her.  Hitchcock’s film had a compromised ending where the studio demanded a “happy” conclusion.  While I’m not crazy about remaking any Hitchcock movie (Disturbia is the best yet simply because it’s not terrible), Suspicion is not among the director’s best and there’s room to do a fresh take (which would be a re-adaptation of the source material, Francis Iles’ 1932 novel Before the Fact).

Smith would play the Grant role and I support it simply because I want to see if he can play a bad guy.  He certainly has the charm the role requires, but he’s never played anything close to villain so I’d like to see him challenge himself as an actor in that respect.  As long as they don’t have Smith committing suicide via jellyfish, there’s hope.

Then again, Smith may do another movie instead.  He has plenty to choose from.  Hit the jump for just a few of the films he may do next.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: November 7th, 2009 at 10:02 am

Going back to the old masters, going back to the classics is always illuminating. Someone like Alfred Hitchcock knew how to frame a film. He knew where he was putting his camera, and why it was there. As in North by Northwest he achieved one of the great visual representations of sex. Cary Grant lifts Eva Marie Saint up to bed, and then a train enters a tunnel. Not exactly subtle, but undeniably brilliant. My review after the jump.

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