The Samuel Fuller Collection
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
DVD Video Review: Cigar and pistol in hand, clydefro takes a deep breath to review the seven films comprising Sony's Sam Fuller box set.
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The Samuel Fuller Collection
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Highly Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Proof positive of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's commitment to classic films on DVD comes with The Sam Fuller Collection . The seven-disc set packages two of the iconoclastic writer-director's Columbia efforts, preceded by five pictures for which he took story or screenwriting credit. The films feature strong characters from the idealistic Fuller...
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DVD: Review:The Samuel Fuller Collection
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Because writer-director Sam Fuller tried his best to skirt the Hollywood system, his filmography tends to be scattered, erratic, and difficult to collect. Sony’s 7-DVD box set The Samuel Fuller Collection features only two movies that Fuller directed ( The Crimson Kimono and Underworld U.S.A. ), along with two he merely co-scripted ( It Happened In Hollywood and Shockproof...
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Pass notes No 2,683: Cinématon
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... it. Love those inverted commas. What are the highlights? Gilliam eats a 100-Franc note. Director Sam Fuller lights a cigar and smokes it for three minutes and 25 seconds. I'd pay good money not to see either. What was the longest film in history before Cinématon, which the Mirror calls the "dullest film ever made"? According to Wikipedia, which is wrong, Berlin Alexanderplatz...
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This Veterans Day
dhs literary show + tell (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... among those black expatriates who’d remained in France after the war. Their younger brother, Sam, had been stationed in India, and my uncle on my mother’s side, Oscar Hutton Jr., I never knew. Oscar had been a Tuskegee airman and was killed in plane combat over Memmingen, Germany, in July of 1944. I have the Purple Heart awarded him posthumously. But the experiences of the black soldier...
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Webb Players present Wilde play this weekend
Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... as Lady Bracknell, and Harley Walker, who is cast as Cecily Cardew. Other cast members include Sam Fuller as the Rev. Canon Chausible, D.D., Zach Kelly as Merriman (Jack's butler), Vijay Putatunda as Lane (Algernon's servant), Mary Kathryn Menck as Miss Prism (Cecily's governess) and Phoenix Wyatt as the assistant to Lady Bracknell. Wyatt was also the understudy for Cecily and Gwendolyn....
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Robert Zemeckis’s “A Christmas Carol”
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The New York Times has its Holiday Preview issue this week, which means no DVD column — the world will somehow have to do without my thoughts on Sony’s new Sam Fuller set until next week. But in the meantime, I can offer the latest installment in my quixotic campaign to convince the world [...]
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DVD Tuesday: New Battlestar!
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... the weekend: start with the Bunuel DVD collection, then take a complete left turn and pop in the Sam Fuller. Your mind will be suitably blown. If you want your blaxsploitation a little more hard-edged than, say, Black Dynamite try out Black Devil Doll . Everything about it is objectionable, obnoxious and offensive. Which is a good thing! How vile and grotesque do you think exploitation films...
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Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #2: "Fixed Bayonets!," directed by Samuel Fuller
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon, expanded into a full-length Korean battle movie without benefit of the usual newsreel clips. Funny, morbid—the best war movie since Bataan. I wouldn't mind seeing...
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Top 10 films
Simon King's written outpourings (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Recently, cinema has become one of my main passions. I'm gradually becoming more of a cinephile, but I'm still not all the way there, so this list is far from complete or definite. This list, I must make clear, is a personal selection from what I've encountered and what I've liked the most. Other directors I will be looking into this year are Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky, Jean Renoir, Sam Fuller,...