Set in the sixties, as a group of friends are about to move on to college, this coming of age story–what is considered the first, in fact–is an American classic that wanders the streets of a small town when kids drove big cars and listened to American rock and roll.įollowing the teenagers during one night, the film is sweet, funny, and filled with nostalgia for days that are now long gone.īest of all, the Blu-ray comes with a good number of features, including a somewhat slow but interesting picture-in-picture video commentary with George Lucas, a standard definition making-of documentary, screen tests, and a feature that lets you watch the film and find out which songs are playing during the scenes. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison FordĪnother classic available this week, also for the first time on Blu-ray, is George Lucas’ American Graffiti starring Richard Dreyfuss and a very young Ronny Howard (who would of course move on to direct as Ron Howard). We get an overall picture of what’s happening between Humbert and Lolita, but it comes across as superficial for the most part.Īs a work of one of America’s most well-known avant-garde directors, Lolita is worth a watch, and it looks wonderful on Blu-ray, but it’s worth a warning that it is not Kubrick’s most powerful work. The story is disturbing, but it’s also an incredibly watered-down retelling of Nabokov’s famed novel, and it tends to whitewash a lot of the key elements of the plot, not to mention Humbert’s story and psychological motivation. Hubert uses his wiles to get closer to Lolita, and as the darkly comic drama unfolds we witness his descent into what can only be called a terrible series of events that culminates with what we see at the opening of the film: Humbert killing the writer Clare Quilty, played by Peter Sellers, for what the man did to Lolita. Humbert is however not in love with Charlotte and only has eyes for one person: Charlotte’s young daughter, Lolita, played by Sue Lyon. Released in 1961 but set in the 1950s, Lolita follows scholar Humbert Humbert, played by James Mason, a British professor who has settled into a small town in New Hampshire where his landlady, the frustrated Charlotte Haze, played by Shelley Winters, is making advances. Stanley Kubrick was a powerful director who can hardly be compared to any other filmmaker in the last fifty years, and he left his mark with no less than thirteen films that are still discussed and revered as true film classics today.Īt the same time, the director’s rendering of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is by far the filmmaker’s weakest film, primarily because of the controversial nature of the book, which required Kubrick to make a multitude of changes to the story so the film could get past the MPAA censors. Starring: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters, Gary Cockrell Most importantly though, the film is high concept bloody B-movie camp,t he dialogue is mostly terrible, but it’s fun-terrible, and Fichtner is unbelievably brilliant. While it’s true that Cage coasts along through the film, as he has in a lot of his recent acting gigs, Cage on auto-pilot is still far more amusing than your average actor. Launched in theatres with 3D that had fans and critics alike thrilled, Drive Angry still has loads of blood, gore, and flying body parts on DVD and Blu-ray, and it’s a veritable treasure trove of action goodness that may remind a lot of Cage’s fans why they have loved him for so many years, and despite his many, many terrible films. Milton will just have to contend with The Accountant, played by William Fichtner, a force sent from Hell to bring the rampaging soul back to its rightful prison. Meeting the young Piper, played by Amber Heard, along the way, who happens to have a killer ’69 Charger, Milton and his new friend will drive their way through any challenge to get to their goal. My Bloody Valentine director Patrick Lussier puts Nicolas Cage front and center in the supernatural tale of a man–the aptly named Milton–who breaks out of hell to rescue his infant granddaughter from being sacrificed to a bloody cult. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, Christa Campbell, Charlotte Ross New arrivals this week on home video include: the campy, and hilariously gory Drive Angry, starring Nicolas Cage Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, George Lucas’ American Graffiti and Ridley Scott’s Legend, all on Blu-ray for the first time plus a look at True Blood: The Complete Third Season. David Morse and Nicolas Cage in Drive Angry
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