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2006 Stories by Paul Malcolm

• Fade to Black

  published December 28, 2006

  I can’t remember who came up with the name for this column when it first started running in 1994 — whether it was myself or... More >>

• Lubitsch in Berlin

  published December 21, 2006

  In case you still think that German silent cinema was all vampires, golems, somnambulists and the occasional tragic prostitute, Kino’s... More >>

• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

  published December 14, 2006

  Every so often it can feel like there’s nothing new to discover out there in cinemaland. Then out of left field comes a film like... More >>

• The Premiere Frank Capra Collection

  published December 7, 2006

  Nothing gets me bawling faster, and with such predictability, than a Frank Capra film. Take the prime culprit It’s a Wonderful... More >>

• Tribulation 99

  published November 30, 2006

  If Michael Moore were a schizophrenic, his documentaries would look a lot like Tribulation 99 (1991). Of course, if you focus on the... More >>

• Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection

  published November 23, 2006

  A while back, Anchor Bay released a box set of films themed around the always-stormy, always-dazzling collaboration between director Werner... More >>

• The Fallen Idol

  published November 16, 2006

  The Fallen Idol (1948) was the first of three collaborations between director Carol Reed and novelist Graham Greene, who adapted his own... More >>

• Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition

  published November 9, 2006

  Earlier this year, the Aero Theater presented a 70mm screening and panel discussion of SF classic Forbidden Planet (1956). The... More >>

• The Films of James Broughton

  published November 2, 2006

  The three discs that make up Facet’s collection, The Films of James Broughton, reveal the work of a film poet whose passions... More >>

• Clean, Shaven

  published October 26, 2006

  If Lodge Kerrigan’s Clean, Shaven simply got under your skin, it wouldn’t be half the American independent masterpiece that... More >>

• The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology

  published October 19, 2006

  Since the first film was released in 1973, the Exorcist franchise has attracted three auteurs, an amateur and a hack to its themes of... More >>

• Inner Sanctum Mysteries The Complete Movie Collection

  published October 12, 2006

  A couple of friends came by the other night looking to borrow a horror flick to include in their annual “Shocktober” homemade movie... More >>

• Imprint

  published October 5, 2006

  As the hype goes, Showtime refused to air Japanese director Takashi Miike’s contribution to the channel’s Masters of Horror... More >>

• The Clay Bird

  published September 28, 2006

  Documentarian Tareque Masud’s first fiction feature, The Clay Bird, takes a child’s-eye view of the volatile mix of radical... More >>

• Uniform

  published September 21, 2006

  The clothes make the man, as they say, and in his debut film, Uniform (2003), Chinese writer-director Yinan Diao turns this... More >>

• Jigoku, Spirit of the Beehive

  published September 14, 2006

  This Tuesday, Criterion releases two very different kinds of international ghost stories, each infused with its own haunting local flavor. A... More >>

• Phantom

  published September 7, 2006

  Based on a magazine serial (later published in novel form) by Nobel Prize winner Gerhart Hauptmann, Phantom (1922), despite... More >>

• Jim Henson's Fantasy Film Collection: The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirrormask

  published August 31, 2006

  Despite the perennial affection — and occasional fervor — shown toward Jim Henson’s Muppet creations, Henson’s other... More >>

• Hunger

  published August 24, 2006

  In an extra on New Yorker Video’s DVD release of Danish director Henning Carlsen’s Hunger (1966), based on the novel by... More >>

• The Hidden Blade

  published August 17, 2006

  Over the course of his 40-year career, veteran Japanese filmmaker Yôji Yamada has become known for telling stories about the “little... More >>

• Born in '45

  published August 10, 2006

  Divorce, East German–style, is the starting point of Born in ’45, in which cowriter and director Jürgen Böttcher... More >>

• Wanda

  published August 3, 2006

  Protégée (and, later, wife) to Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden left a modeling career for Hollywood fame, playing Warren Beatty’s... More >>

• Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 3

  published July 27, 2006

  Film noir has always embraced the eccentric, but Warner Bros. pushes the envelope with the third volume of its Film Noir Classic Collection.... More >>

• Cut Shorts

  published July 20, 2006

  Eclectic DVD recently brought a slice, or rather 20 slices, of Los Angeles underground-film history to light with its release of Cut... More >>

• Anxious Animation

  published July 13, 2006

  The title of Other Cinema’s recently released collection of work by four avant-garde animators, Anxious Animation, doesn’t... More >>