KL Studio Lorber have just released a pair of Hollywood comedy classics on Blu-ray that are a must for your home video library. Both of these pictures are helmed by the legendary Billy Wilder, and if you somehow haven’t seem…
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It’s been awhile since there has been a week packed with so many monumental new releases, yet here we are! Along with several new titles from the Criterion Collection, the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases also include the latest entry…
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Mark your calendars, because the weeks and months ahead are going to be packed with DVD and Blu-ray releases of vintage films that you are going to want to add to your home viewing libraries. Companies like KL Studio Classic,…
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Like Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder found his career at the crossroads in the 1960s. Successes such as The Apartment and Irma la Douce were offset by flops like Kiss Me, Stupid and the under-appreciated One, Two, Three. It’s almost as if he couldn’t quite…
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Our current Colossal Comedy Sale presents some of your favorite farces at great prices. Let’s take a look at 10 of the (many) titles featured in the sale! Remember the Night Breezy mix of comedy, drama, and romance stars Barbara…
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It’s a hot Summer day in August here in Falmouth on Cape Cod. I have all my errands done and it’s just around 3:00pm. Since it’s too early to eat supper, I think I’ll watch one of my “summer” movies…
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Love in the 1970s: A look at 3 classics from the 1970s. Avanti (1972) directed by Billy Wilder, The Goodbye Girl (1977) starring Richard Dreyfuss, and Harold and Maude (1971) directed by Hal Ashby and starring Ruth Gordon
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Today we’ll be looking at what is probably director Billy Wilder‘s most underrated effort: One, Two, Three. Drawing inspiration from an obscure Hungarian play as well as Wilder’s own Ninotchka, this Cold War comedy is a hilarious jab at not…
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It can be a challenge to review a classic like Billy Wilder‘s Some Like It Hot, because so much has been written about it. So, instead of a traditional review, I want to focus on Wilder’s theme of deception and…
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1. Billy Wilder only directed 26 feature-length films and three of those were released in 1957 (The Spirit of St. Louis, Love in the Afternoon, and Witness for the Prosecution0. In contrast, Alfred Hitchcock directed over 50 movies. 2. He…
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