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4 items from 2012

You Only Live Once

14 July 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

(Fritz Lang, 1937, Studiocanal, 12)

Fritz Lang is one of the few directors with truly substantial bodies of film in both the silent and the sound era, though he rarely had the budgets or creative freedom during his Hollywood years that he'd enjoyed in 1920s Berlin.

This classic of social-conscience cinema, his third film after fleeing from Nazi Germany, stars Henry Fonda as a three-time loser, unjustly convicted of murder and on the run with his pregnant wife (Sylvia Sidney). It is at once a great prison melodrama, an expression of Lang's fascination with fate and destiny, and a powerful attack on the death penalty and the stigmatisation of ex-convicts. Fonda (here anticipating his Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath) has rarely been better, Sidney is heartbreaking as his devoted wife, and the supporting cast is a gallery of familiar character actors (Margaret Hamilton, Barton MacLane, William Gargan, Ward Bond et »

- Philip French

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DVD Review - You Only Live Once (1937)

4 June 2012 3:09 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

You Only Live Once, 1937.

Directed by Fritz Lang.

Written by Gene Towne and C. Graham Baker.

Starring Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda and Barton MacLane.

Synopsis:

A recently released criminal is determined to go straight and marry the woman he loves. Circumstance says otherwise. StudioCanal are releasing Fritz Lang's second American film on DVD June 4th, commemorating its 75th anniversary.

Boy, does Henry Fonda look young. He plays Eddie Taylor, a man just released from the slammer. He's been in there three times already, and another means the chair.

It'll be easier going straight this time, because now he has a woman in Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney). It was her efforts down at the Public Defender's office that got Taylor out early. They're besotted with one another, and it's easy to see why. They're a pretty couple, full of hope and kisses. They swoon over plant arrangements and two frogs sitting side by side. »

- Chris Villeneuve

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Mill Creek 50 Movie Packs Discount Code And Giveaway

10 May 2012 7:32 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

If you’ve hunted around for movie bargains, you’ve probably seen some of Mill Creek Entertainment’s 50-Movie Packs on DVD. Apart from other great releases by Mill Creek, these packs are phenomenal boons to cinephiles looking to collect older titles.

There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.

I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more, »

- Marc Eastman

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Friday Noir: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ is indeed the treasure people make it out to be

27 April 2012 4:15 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Maltese Falcon

Directed by John Huston

Written by John Huston

U.S.A, 1941

It has often been written and said that John Huston’s 1941 classic, The Maltese Falcon, brought it in the era of film noir, or that it is the definitive entry within the genre. The origins of the genre and where Huston’s picture comes into play in that debate shall not be discussed, primarily because there is still no genuine consensus, even after all these years. As for its quality and worth as part of the long line of noir adventures, it is safe to say that the verdict is clear cut and has been for decades already: The Maltese Falcon is a masterpiece. Why? Far be it from this amateur film fanatic to enlighten the readers as to why exactly. That venture shall be left for the historians and appointed experts in the field of film studies. »

- Edgar Chaput

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