One of the most glamorous / unsavory films noir ever, this creepy tale of a master con-man undone by warped ambition was planned as a career-altering role for the big star Tyrone Power. Power plumbs the depths of personal degradation in terms that even today skew to the squeamish side of human experience. Almost as fascinating are the women Power uses, arrayed in dynamic contrast: Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell and Helen Walker. Yes, this is the movie about ‘The Geek’… Hollywood hadn’t been this intimate with the seamy underside of carnival life since Tod Browning’s Freaks. The disc extras include top contributions from James Ursini and Alain Silver, Imogen Sara Smith and even Coleen Gray.
Nightmare Alley
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1078
1947 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 111 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 25, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith,...
Nightmare Alley
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1078
1947 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 111 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 25, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
We finally have our first official Lords casting news! As per Rob Zombie on Facebook, "Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords Of Salem as Margaret Morgan the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem." Meg has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend, John Carpenter's They Live and Robert Kaylor's Carny. Shooting is expected to start this fall. Stay tuned for more news! Source…...
- 9/18/2011
- Horrorbid
Rob Zombie announced today via his official Facebook that Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords Of Salem, which begins lensing this fal from the producing team behind Insidious and Paranormal Activity. Foster will play "Margaret Morgan", the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem. She has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend, John Carpenter's They Live and Robert Kaylor's Carny. "The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.
- 9/18/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
"Robert Kaylor's 1971 documentary Derby is a quintessential movie about the American dream," writes Michael Joshua Rowin for Artforum. "The film centers on a young factory worker, Michael Robert Snell, and his pursuit of stardom on the professional roller derby circuit, but due to the proclivities of its eccentric subject — a handsome, 23-year-old husband and father of two who has not outgrown his wild adolescence — Derby is also a movie about harsh American realities. Since we never know whether Snell makes it, Kaylor's movie emphasizes the process of personal transformation rather than the goal of that transformation, and in so doing confronts the viewer with the sadness of a reinvention more deluded than courageous."...
- 11/13/2010
- MUBI
On the night of July 2nd, 1979, Robbie Robertson and Gary Busey stopped off at a bar and grill in lower Manhattan for a drink. They wanted to make a toast: to Carny, which they’d finished filming only the day before.
Several revelers at the next table were harassing them and started to jump Busey on his way out of the men’s room. They froze at the sound of Robertson’s glass breaking against the edge of the table. He pointed the jagged weapon at Busey’s opponents, and...
Several revelers at the next table were harassing them and started to jump Busey on his way out of the men’s room. They froze at the sound of Robertson’s glass breaking against the edge of the table. He pointed the jagged weapon at Busey’s opponents, and...
- 6/26/1980
- by Chet Flippo
- Rollingstone.com
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