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July 2024

UK's Powerhouse Films releasing four classic film disks in September:

You and Me (1938) 2K restoration, film by Fritz Lang Powerhouse page

When Tomorrow Comes (1939) 2K restoration, film by John Stahl with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer Powerhouse Page

You'll Never Get Rich (1941) High Definition remaster, film by Sidney Lanfield, with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth Powerhouse Page

The Lady is Willing (1942) High Definition remaster, film by Mitchell Leisen, with Fred MacMurray, Marlene Dietrich and "Corey the Wonder Baby," Powerhouse Page

Donald Sutherland has died

Donald Sutherland 1935–2024

Canadian actor Donald Sutherland's career spanned six decades, beginning with his roles in classic films such as The Dirty Dozen (1967) and MASH (1970). He was often praised for his ability to seamlessly transition between genres, for example Don't Look Now (1973), Ordinary People (1980), and his more recent roles in blockbuster franchises like The Hunger Games series. Sutherland was given an Honorary Oscar in 2017.

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The 1984 quasi-punk sci-fi mystery film Repo Man is coming out on Criterion Blu-Ray disc (4K digital restoration, approved by director Alex Cox, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack – one 4K UHD disc and one Blu-ray disc) in September. The Criterion page about their HD edition.

Fast Review: Cactus Flower – 1969

At the start of Cactus Flower, a prone Goldie Hawn is on her couch as her tiny apartment fills with gas from her tiny oven. Like a sacrifice to a shrine she positions herself with arms crossed below a large framed photo of Walter Matthau, who has just broken a dinner-date with her, and she lays still and breathes in the killing fumes. Her suicide goes awry when her neighbor, unsuccessful playwright Julian (played by Rick Lenz), sniffs the gas out in the hall, and unable to get through the door, smashes out one of her windows to climb in and turn the gas off. He then administers mouth-to-mouth respiration to the passed-out young woman which turns into a heated kissing session until Hawn's character snaps awake, realizing these aren't middle-aged Walter Matthau lips!

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Columbia 100 Anniversary will have Lawrence of Arabia and Close Encounters of the Third Kind returning to movie theaters. Also, Rear Window will be in Theaters, too, as part of that film's 70th anniversary.

Fast Review: The Maze – 1953

As a mystery/horror film, The Maze digs right into a 1953 obsession, that of evolution gone wrong, but it is combined with a Gothic "haunted house" story about how to keep a dark family secret very secret for literally hundreds of years (though they keep a copy of a book titled Teratology laying around in the open).

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