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A focus on album art and hard-to-find releases fatten out the analysis of the great genre soundtracks of our youth.
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Blu-ray Review: MY BRILLIANT CAREER Is On Disc While The Criterion Channel Looms
Judy Davis is a boundary-breaking heroine in 1901 Australia in Gillian Armstrong’s debut feature.
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AGNÈS VARDA (1928-2019)
The film world mourns as the funny old cat lady with the red and white fringe goes to the great beyond. Agnès Varda was one of the most influential (and, until relatively recently, undersung) French filmmakers of the 20th century,…
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STANLEY DONEN (1924-2019)
The last surviving director of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” died in February and we’re gonna talk about it, by way of Stanley Donen’s films Indiscreet and Two For The Road.
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ALBERT FINNEY (1936-2019)
An actor who made a mark in six consecutive decades of film, Albert Finney is the first 2019 death to make it to Deathwatch. We look at his films Under The Volcano and Tom Jones while discussing the impact of his…
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Blu-ray Review: In LA VERITÉ, Brigitte Bardot and Henri-Georges Clouzot Take Aim At Institutional Misogyny
Henri-Georges Clouzot claimed that his 1960 film, La Verité, was created with the intent of exploring how it is impossible to judge a person, once full knowledge of that person’s story was in place. Viewed in 2019, where it has recently…
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PENNY MARSHALL (1943-2018)
The first female director to break the $100M-grossing club, Penny Marshall got her start in TV before transitioning into a weirdly brief, highly beloved career as a feature film director. For today’s episode we look at her debut feature, Jumpin’…
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GEORGE H.W. BUSH (1924-2018)
The 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush presided over one of the greatest health emergencies in American history and was directly or indirectly responsible for well north of a million people. Here at Deathwatch, that’s worth a…
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Blu-ray Review: Euzhan Palcy’s A DRY WHITE SEASON Is Stunningly Timely
One of Criterion’s final 2018 releases is also one of the label’s best.
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THE LAST JEDI Was A Star Wars Fan’s Star Wars Film… Until It Wasn’t
“[The Last Jedi] was the first time I’d seen a Star Wars film that had clearly been made by someone who loved the series as much as, and had thought about it as obsessively as, me.”
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