MOTHER OF TEARS
THE THIRD MOTHER
A Video Watchdog Round Table Discussion
Maitland McDonagh makes a long-overdue return to our pages to discuss, dissect and analyze Dario Argento’s latest release with
Tim Lucas, Kim Newman, Richard Harland Smith and
Brad Stevens.
Is it an unworthy disaster, a surrealist
masterpiece,
or something in between?
DVD Spotlight
Three by Jean-Pierre Melville
Rebecca and Sam Umland
review the best of
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura in these
essential new releases from the master of French crime cinema:
LÉON MORIN, PRIEST,
Le Doulos and
Le Deuxième Souffle!
Plus Reviews of...
The TV remake
of
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN... Ed Wood's bestiality romance THE BRIDE AND THE
BEAST... William Cameron Menzies'
CHANDU
THE MAGICIAN with Bela Lugosi... Wong Kar-wei's captivating and imaginative romance
CHUNGKING EXPRESS... the
Ballardian and Australian CRASH TEST...
the contemporary giallo DARKNESS
SURROUNDS ROBERTA... J. Carrol Naish keeps
DR. RENAULT'S SECRET... we apply some
critical soap to DRACULA'S DIRTY DAUGHTER... Vincent Price presages his classic
Poe performances in the 1940s melodrama DRAGONWYCK... Miles Davis scores Louis Malle's directorial debut thriller
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS... Horst Tappert
organizes THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY... Roddy McDowall reanimates a golem in IT!...
Charlotte Gainsbourg's tense household is overtaken by a
LEMMING... Anthony
Hopkins and a scary ventriloquist's dummy double talk their way through
MAGIC...
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB PRESENTS ANNETTE... Jacques Dutronc and Sophie
Marceau make beautiful rhymes together in Andrzej Zulawski's
MY NIGHTS ARE MORE
BEAUTIFUL THAN YOUR DAYS... Gillian Hills stars in the surprisingly erotic
Granada Television
family entertainment THE OWL SERVICE... in the near future, rock music converts
the masses to conformity in Peter Watkins' PRIVILEGE... Kathryn Harrold tends to
a psychic patient in THE SENDER... Oliver Reed pursues Carol Lynley into THE
SHUTTERED ROOM... colors explode in the Wachovski Brothers'
SPEED RACER... Ken Foree and Lynn Lowry return to the screen in
SPLATTER DISCO... David Carradine
stars in SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN
RETREAT... Fred Olen Ray taps
into the erotic side of anime in SUPER
NINJA DOLL... an undead Elvis
impersonator plays house in TRAILER
PARK OF TERROR...
and a strange albino ape turns amorous in
THE WHITE GORILLA!
And...
Ramsey Campbell
on
the bizarre
Turkish comedy-adventure KORKUSUZ KAPTAN SWING!
Books: Sam Umland reviews Taschen's latest piano-sized book
THE INGMAR
BERGMAN ARCHIVES, and Tim Lucas reviews Carl Wilson's
LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE: A
JOURNEY TO THE END OF TASTE.
