Le Disque Report
Your DVD Round-up with Phillippe Aghion
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For the first time in my life I read Liz Smith’s New York Post column. It was so unrelentingly horrible it gave me pause. She’s an institution. So next time you feel a little disheartened by your anonymity or inability to “make it”, take solace in the fact that large swath’s of this and every other city’s population are spectacular morons.
Whoever Says The Truth Shall Die (Facets)
Documentary about the murder of madman cineaste Pier Paolo Pasolini, questioning whether the 17-year old hustler arrested was really to blame.
October 31
The Junky’s Christmas (Koch)
William S. Burrough’s animated story is an approach I can get behind.
November 7
Western Hemisphere… (BBC)
Spectacularly regarded series about the globe’s landscape and animals who roam this earth.
October 31
The Bases Are Loaded (Hypeworld)
A documentary about the double play combo of Cuban base ball and politics.
October 31
The Brando Collection (Warners)
Includes my cult favorite Reflections in a Golden Eye, a tragically flawed John Huston film co-starring Liz Taylor and appearing here with since unseen golden hued print of this Carson McCullers story about an army officer squirming under the weight of homosexual longing.
November 7
The Fountainhead (Warners)
Laughably wooden performance from Gary Cooper in a laughably wooden film from laughably wooden author Ayn Rand who influenced a generation of conservatives who yielded and continue to yield power. Who’s laughing now?
November 7
Fallen Idol (Criterion)
Carol Reed Graham Greene collaboration that’s the pick of the litter this issue. A boy suspects his beloved butler of murder in this thriller.
November 7
