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Aisle Seat 4-23: Severin Chillers on 4K UHD
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Andy Dursin
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4/22/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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The annals of “Jaws” rip-offs run the gamut from giant alligators and piranhas to mutated grizzly bears, crocodiles and…well, we’re back to alligators again with THE GREAT ALLIGATOR (89 mins., 1979; Severin Films), one of the many films in this genre that features unsuspecting victims running afoul of something in the wild that wants to take a bite out of them. Not to be confused with either John Sayles’ superior “Alligator” or the gross-out Thai import “Crocodile,” this Sergio Martino-helmed Italian production goes down nice and easy – a movie that comfortably debuted in the U.S. on the CBS Late Movie, and one that makes you feel like having a frozen slushy and throwing on George Benson’s “Living Inside Your Love” double LP for good measure. |
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Aisle Seat 4-16: Spring Rundown Edition
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Andy Dursin
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4/15/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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With a pair of tremendous debut titles already under its belt (the 1980 Paramount hit “Little Darlings” and Nicolas Cage noir fave “Red Rock West”), Cinematographe returns this month with another 4K restoration for a film with a big star whose very infrequent directorial sojourns ran into difficulty: Jack Nicholson’s GOIN’ SOUTH (105 mins., 1978, PG), a “comic western” looked upon as a missed opportunity when it was first released in 1978. Sure enough, the years have been equally unkind to this oddball Paramount release – written by John Herman Shaner, Al Ramrus, Charles Shyer and Alan Mandel – that pairs Nicholson’s maniacal outlaw with virginal Mary Steenburgen (her first major role), who opts to marry Nicholson’s Henry Moon just as sheriff Christopher Lloyd and deputy John Belushi are about to hang him in the town square. |
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Aisle Seat 4-2: Kino Lorber Discs, GHOSTBUSTERS New & Revisited
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Posted By:
Andy Dursin
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4/1/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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While long regarded as one of those extravagantly budgeted musicals that doomed the genre in the late ‘60s, there’s always been something appealing about the widescreen grandeur of PAINT YOUR WAGON (171 mins., 1969, PG-13), the Joshua Logan-Paddy Chayefsky “re-thinking” of the classic Lerner-Lowe musical which added a whole new book to augment its masterful songs. Now on 4K UHD from Kino Lorber, this uneven yet watchable, infamous box-office failure receives a beautiful Dolby Vision HDR master from the original camera negative, restoring the visual impact of Logan’s admittedly-bloated production. |
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Today in Film Score History: April 24 |
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Barbra Streisand born (1942) |
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Dana Kaproff born (1954) |
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Double Indemnity is released in theaters (1944) |
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Georges Delerue records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Doll" (1986) |
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Hubert Bath died (1945) |
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John Williams begins recording his score for Dracula (1979) |
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Lennie Hayton died (1971) |
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Tristam Cary died (2008) |
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Vaclav Trojan born (1907) |
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