Chasing Labels

Chasing Labels #143

Films discussed: Love, Death, & Apocalypse: Three Films by Alex de La Iglesia (Arrow) Chronicles of Riddick (Arrow) Torso (Arrow) The Threat (Arrow) Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials (1913-1918) (Eureka) Boulevard Nights (Warner Archive) Three Little Words (Warner Archive) Black Belt Jones (Warner Archive) Words and Music (Warner Archive) Village of the Damned (Shout) Doomsday (Shout) The Stepfather (Shout) The Strangers (Shout) The Amitville Horror (Shout) The Boy (Shout) The White Dawn (Kino) Aces High (Kino) Graveyard Shift (Kino) Smoke (Kino) Blue in the Face (Kino) Hunted (Kino) Naughty Girl (Kino) Two Weeks in September (Kino) Brother (Imprint) Cliff Walkers (Imprint) The Farmer (Dark Force Entertainment) Blue Sunshine (Synapse) Totem (Criterion) The Weak and the Wicked (Studio Canal) No Trees in the Street (Studio Canal) A Chinese Torture Chamber Story 1&2 (Vinegar Syndrome) Reptilicus (Vinegar Syndrome) Last Embrace (Cinémtographe) Interrogation (Vinegar Syndrome Labs) Amanda and the Alien (AGFA) Bastards (IFC) The Bitter Ash (Canadian International Pictures) Femme (Utopia) Go Down Death (Factory 25) Lost Prophet (VHSHitfest) Mami Wata (Dekanalog) Marcel Pagnol: My Father’s Glory, My Mother’s Castle (Film Movement) Nintendo Quest (ETR Media)

Welcome to Chasing Labels #142!

Films discussed: Le Doulos (Kino) Bob Le Flambeur (Kino) Hound of the Baskervilles (Sandpiper) Lady in White (Sandpaper) Moby Dick (Sandpiper) Saving Grace (Sandpiper) Happiness (Criterion) Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (Criterion) The Long Good Friday (Criterion) All of Us Strangers (Criterion) Repo Man (Criterion) The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (Kino) Teacher’s Pet (Kino) Incendies (101) Story of G.I. Joe (Ignite Films) You’re Next (Second Sight) Simple Like Silver (Severin) You’ll Never Get Rich (Indicator) When Tomorrow Comes (Indicator) You and Me (Indicator) The Lady is Willing (Indicator) Triangle (Umbrella) The Isle (Umbrella) Capricorn One (Imprint) Voyage of the Damned (Imprint) The Tales of Adventure Collection 4

Welcome to spine number 141 of Chasing Labels!

Films discussed:

Scooby-Doo and the Witch”s Ghost/Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders(Warner Archive) Northwest Passage (Warner Archive) Idiot’s Delight (Warner Archive) War of the Buttons (Warner Archive) Gung Ho (Kino) Rules of Engagement (Kino) Sudden Death (Kino) Prime Cut (Kino) Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXII (Kino) Last Year at Marienbad (Kino) The Apartment (Kino Classics) Caligula (Drafthouse Films) The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence) The Lady of Burlesque (Film Masters) Dawn of the Mummy (Film Treasures) Bad Company (Fun City Editions) Death to Smoochie (Shout Studios) Observe and Report (Shout Studios) Delta Force (Shout Studios) The Last Unicorn (Shout Studios) Bill and Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy (Shout Studios) A Man on His Knees (Radiance) Tattooed Life (Radiance) We Still Kill the Old Way (Radiance) A Quiet Place in the Country (Radiance) Shawscope Volume 3 (Arrow) The Mexico Trilogy (Arrow) Heathers (Arrow) The Silence of the Lambs (Arrow) The Arrested Development Documentary Project (ETR Media) Beijing Watermelon (Kani) Ennio (Music Box Selects) Kamikaze 89 (Film Movement) Mister Lonely (IFC Films) The Plot Against Harry (The Film Desk) Roadkill (Canadian International Pictures) The Sadness (Shutter) Shanghai Triad (Film Movement) Six in Paris (Icarus Films) Supermarket (Subkultur USA) The Sweet East (Utopia)

Now the guys are in part 3 of their Jim Carrey series! talking his dramas!

Welcome to Chasing Labels spine number 140!

Films discussed: Real Life (Criterion) Mother (Criterion) Not a Pretty Picture (Criterion) Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova (Criterion) Danza Macabra Volume 3 (Severin) Bless Their Little Hearts (Milestone) The Taming of the Shrew (Imprint) Woman of Straw (Imprint) Banning (Imprint) The General’s Daughter (Kino) The Hairdresser’s Husband (Kino) Yvonne’s Perfume (Kino) The Girl on the Bridge (Kino) Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years 1927 (Eureka) Goodnight Mommy (Umbrella) A Bittersweet Life (Second Sight)

Welcome to another installment of The Unwatched Pile!

Tonight’s first time watches:

Johnny Pomatto - Branded to Kill (1967)

Andrew Cabral - La Piscine (1969)

Steven Billings - Dementia 13 (1963)

Welcome to Chasing labels spine number 139!

Films discussed:

Brokeback Mountain (Kino) Body and Soul (Kino) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kino) Single White Female (Indicator) Bruiser (Indicator) Untouched (Indicator) Viva La Muerte (Radiance) Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza (Radiance) World Noir Vol 2 (Radiance) The Conversation (Studio Canal) Red Sun (Studio Canal) Army of Shadows (Studio Canal) Merry-Go-Round (Second Run) Riddle of Fire (Vinegar Syndrome) The Most Important Thing: Love (Film Movement) Streetwise (Dekanalog)

Welcome to spine number 138 of Chasing Labels!

Releases discussed:

Welcome to another installment of The Unwatched Pile! Film critic Dan Skip Allen is back!

First-time watches!

Dan - High and Low (1963)

Andrew - Visible Secret (2001)

Steven - Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Watch to see which films we pair them with!

Welcome to spine number 137 of Chasing Labels!

Films discussed: Mississippi Mermaid (Radiance) The Landlord (Radiance) Tchao Pantin (Radiance) Eighteen Years in Prison (Radiance) Warriors of Virtue (Sandpiper) Ghoulies II (MVD) The Narrow Margin (Kino) Macbeth (Kino) Snake Eyes (Kino) The Small Back Room (StudioCanal) Love Life (Oscilloscope) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Criterion) Risky Business (Criterion) Le Samourai (Criterion) Farewell My Concubine (Criterion) Perfect Days (Criterion) Black God, White Devil (Criterion)