Paul Malcolm

A while back, Anchor Bay released a box set of films themed around the always-stormy, always-dazzling collaboration between director Werner Herzog and his “best fiend,” actor Klaus Kinski. One wonders if Universal Home Video gave any thought to a similar approach for its Preston Sturges collection, which brings together seven......

The Fallen Idol (1948) was the first of three collaborations between director Carol Reed and novelist Graham Greene, who adapted his own short story for the film. The following year, the two worked together again on The Third Man, though you’d never know it given the dominating presence of Orson......

Earlier this year, the Aero Theater presented a 70mm screening and panel discussion of SF classic Forbidden Planet (1956). The organizers put on a good show, lining the lobby with film stills and props, including a life-size replica of Robby the Robot. When he introduced the film, one of the......

The three discs that make up Facet’s collection, The Films of James Broughton, reveal the work of a film poet whose passions — spiritual, carnal and aesthetic — grew stronger and wilder over the course of a 40-year career. The 17 films gathered together here build to a crescendo. As......

If Lodge Kerrigan’s Clean, Shaven simply got under your skin, it wouldn’t be half the American independent masterpiece that it is. Kerrigan employs a full arsenal of cinematic devices to draw us out of ourselves and sink us deep under the raw, twitchy skin of a schizophrenic trying to find......

A couple of friends came by the other night looking to borrow a horror flick to include in their annual “Shocktober” homemade movie festival. Netflix was apparently running behind schedule. As it happened, I was right in the middle of Universal’s Inner Sanctum Mysteries: The Complete Movie Collection, a two-disc,......

The clothes make the man, as they say, and in his debut film, Uniform (2003), Chinese writer-director Yinan Diao turns this cliché into a sharp but subtle critique of masculinity, power and social status in contemporary China. The film’s story centers on Wang, a quietly simmering young tailor forced to......