Murder strikes a private college. In the new security guard’s efforts to find the killer, he uncovers sordid secrets and multiple unsavory conspiracies. Triple-threat Burt Lancaster boasts directing and screenwriting credits here, and heads a large, exemplary cast of suspects in a mystery that implicates practically all of them in something illegal.
The Midnight Man
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1974 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 117 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Linda Thorpe, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward, Harris Yulin, Robert Quarry, Joan Lorring, Lawrence Dobkin, Ed Lauter, Mills Watson, Charles Tyner, Catherine Bach, Bill Lancaster, Quinn K. Redeker, Peter Dane, Linda Kelsey, William Splawn, Nick Cravat.
Cinematography: Jack Priestley
Film Editor: Frank Moriss
Original Music: Dave Grusin
Written by Roland Kibbee, Burt Lancaster from a book by David Anthony
Produced and Directed by Roland Kibbee & Burt Lancaster
Carrying a reputation as an intelligent low-key murder mystery, 1975’s...
The Midnight Man
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1974 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 117 min. / Street Date February 26, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Linda Thorpe, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward, Harris Yulin, Robert Quarry, Joan Lorring, Lawrence Dobkin, Ed Lauter, Mills Watson, Charles Tyner, Catherine Bach, Bill Lancaster, Quinn K. Redeker, Peter Dane, Linda Kelsey, William Splawn, Nick Cravat.
Cinematography: Jack Priestley
Film Editor: Frank Moriss
Original Music: Dave Grusin
Written by Roland Kibbee, Burt Lancaster from a book by David Anthony
Produced and Directed by Roland Kibbee & Burt Lancaster
Carrying a reputation as an intelligent low-key murder mystery, 1975’s...
- 2/5/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Close, oh, so close.
The team minus Kreizler closed in on child killer John Beecham on The Alienist Season 1 Episode 9, but not before another nameless, boy prostitute was killed on another obscure religious holiday.
As usual, Kreizler was emotionally unavailable, but he was physically unavailable as well this time, as he processed his grief after Mary's murder.
So Sara took over heading the investigation, not out of ambition as Moore intimated, but out of an urge to stop the killer before anyone else died.
Before long, Sara had managed to find a new headquarters, a recently shut-down bar. I'm betting recovering alcoholic Moore wasn't in love with that choice.
Related: The Alienist Season 1 Episode 8 Review: Psychopathia Sexualis
Sara quickly summarized what the team learned in The Alienist Season 1 Episode 8 in pinpointing Jacob Dury/John Beecham as the killer. I'm glad they didn't take long to reach a conclusion that was readily apparent.
The team minus Kreizler closed in on child killer John Beecham on The Alienist Season 1 Episode 9, but not before another nameless, boy prostitute was killed on another obscure religious holiday.
As usual, Kreizler was emotionally unavailable, but he was physically unavailable as well this time, as he processed his grief after Mary's murder.
So Sara took over heading the investigation, not out of ambition as Moore intimated, but out of an urge to stop the killer before anyone else died.
Before long, Sara had managed to find a new headquarters, a recently shut-down bar. I'm betting recovering alcoholic Moore wasn't in love with that choice.
Related: The Alienist Season 1 Episode 8 Review: Psychopathia Sexualis
Sara quickly summarized what the team learned in The Alienist Season 1 Episode 8 in pinpointing Jacob Dury/John Beecham as the killer. I'm glad they didn't take long to reach a conclusion that was readily apparent.
- 3/20/2018
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Independent filmmaker Bret Wood (Psychopathia Sexualis, Hell’S Highway) has revealed the trailer for The Unwanted, a Southern Gothic retelling of Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic and influential novella “Carmilla,” starring V/H/S Hannah Fierman, House’s William Katt and Christen Orr. In The Unwanted, Orr stars as Carmilla, “a young woman who arrives in a small Southern town […]...
- 3/20/2014
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- Fangoria
By Kellie Kotraba
Religion News Service
(Rns) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”
Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium. As colleagues dealt with the devastation and uncertainty of AIDS – it was the 1980s – he grappled with openly acknowledging his sexuality. He was Mormon. And gay. And the two didn’t mix.
Before Pitt, there was a gay Mormon character in a novel: Brigham Anderson, in Allan Drury’s “Advise and Consent,” published in 1959. But words like “gay” and “homosexual” weren’t used; it was all innuendo.
Now, the scene has changed: Gay Mormon characters and themes have a growing role in theater and literature.
Utah playwright Eric Samuelsen said “Angels in America...
Religion News Service
(Rns) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”
Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium. As colleagues dealt with the devastation and uncertainty of AIDS – it was the 1980s – he grappled with openly acknowledging his sexuality. He was Mormon. And gay. And the two didn’t mix.
Before Pitt, there was a gay Mormon character in a novel: Brigham Anderson, in Allan Drury’s “Advise and Consent,” published in 1959. But words like “gay” and “homosexual” weren’t used; it was all innuendo.
Now, the scene has changed: Gay Mormon characters and themes have a growing role in theater and literature.
Utah playwright Eric Samuelsen said “Angels in America...
- 5/24/2013
- by Jahnabi Barooah
- Huffington Post
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 14, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Courtney Patterson (l.) and Zoe Cooper star in The Little Death.
The sexually charged 2010 independent drama-thriller The Little Death takes on the rather unique subject of early 20th Century brothels and that era’s psychology and philosophy on the “immorality” of prostitution.
The Little Death tells the story of a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner (Daniel May) and liberate a young woman (Christie Vozniak) whom she believes is being held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel’s owner attempts mesmerize and seduce the lovely would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) becomes a pawn in the increasingly risque game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is unfolding.
Based on the 1905 play Death and Devil by German playwright Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening), which is integrated with Anton Chekhov’s 1888 short story A Nervous Breakdown,...
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Courtney Patterson (l.) and Zoe Cooper star in The Little Death.
The sexually charged 2010 independent drama-thriller The Little Death takes on the rather unique subject of early 20th Century brothels and that era’s psychology and philosophy on the “immorality” of prostitution.
The Little Death tells the story of a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner (Daniel May) and liberate a young woman (Christie Vozniak) whom she believes is being held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel’s owner attempts mesmerize and seduce the lovely would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) becomes a pawn in the increasingly risque game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is unfolding.
Based on the 1905 play Death and Devil by German playwright Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening), which is integrated with Anton Chekhov’s 1888 short story A Nervous Breakdown,...
- 2/22/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
It has been fifty years since Michael Powell is said to have ruined his career with this mucky, perverse tale of a murdering focus puller/photographer obsessed with capturing a victim’s moment of death on camera. Critics at the time thought it a filthy work and not fit for purpose. How utterly wrong they were.
Howls of derision and outrage have faded with time and now we can look at Peeping Tom with fresh eyes unencumbered by history and memory. From its incredible opening shot of Soho at dusk and the first line of dialogue – “it’ll cost you two quid” – uttered by a prostitute about to meet her demise, Powell takes the viewer on a disturbing trip laced with some exquisite pitch black comedy.
It was a film released a good six months before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho but by sheer coincidence these movies on different continents gave...
Howls of derision and outrage have faded with time and now we can look at Peeping Tom with fresh eyes unencumbered by history and memory. From its incredible opening shot of Soho at dusk and the first line of dialogue – “it’ll cost you two quid” – uttered by a prostitute about to meet her demise, Powell takes the viewer on a disturbing trip laced with some exquisite pitch black comedy.
It was a film released a good six months before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho but by sheer coincidence these movies on different continents gave...
- 11/19/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
One of the most controversial films ever is getting a severely cut release in UK cinemas from 10th December. A Serbian Film isn’t for the faint hearted, hell, it’s not even for those with a strong stomach. Back in August Westminster Council in London banned the film from being shown at FrightFest and the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) removed a massive four minutes worth of cuts before allowing it out for general consumption.
Is the film really that bad? The answer is yes. Srdjan Spasojevic’s highly disturbing horror film is pretty much an endurance test from around half way to its lurid, tragic climax. It’s like Kraft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis brought to life and then some.
A brand new UK trailer is doing the rounds for you to check out. Other countries will get the uncensored version but it’s too much of a hot potato for us Brits.
Is the film really that bad? The answer is yes. Srdjan Spasojevic’s highly disturbing horror film is pretty much an endurance test from around half way to its lurid, tragic climax. It’s like Kraft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis brought to life and then some.
A brand new UK trailer is doing the rounds for you to check out. Other countries will get the uncensored version but it’s too much of a hot potato for us Brits.
- 11/18/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
After many years away from the stage, Matt Servitto has had to readjust to its special demands, he says. Not that he's complaining about what he's done in the interim. After all, playing FBI agent Dwight Harris on "The Sopranos" for all seven seasons (1999–2007) put him on the map and lined his pockets, he admits unabashedly. He is married, the father of three children, and is above all else pragmatic. But theater is his first love, so he says the chance to play the anguished son in Robert Anderson's 1968 intense family drama "I Never Sang for My Father" was irresistible. The fact that the Keen Company is behind it was an added incentive. "They produce work that relates to the heart and mind," Servitto emphasizes. "They're my soulmates." The play's co-stars Keir Dullea and Marsha Mason were a further draw.Still, the emotional and physical stamina required in the role is daunting.
- 3/31/2010
- backstage.com
Lord knows what crimes Eugene Levy committed in a former life, but they’re serious enough for him to have to appear in every American Pie film since 1999. Whilst the Weitz brothers left this franchise a long time ago…along with the quality and humour, it seems Universal are considering bringing back some of the original characters for a “fourth” installment. This is what the L.A. Times is reporting.
Universal are keeping their mouths shut for the moment, but it’s understood (after reporters jumped in studio dumpsters and ripped open bin sacks in order to find top secret shredded memos on the subject) Harold and Kumar writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, are discussing the prospect of resurrecting the franchise proper.
So what have Jim and Stifler been up to all these years? There’s only really Seann William Scott who has actually done well (along with the Weitz bros) from American Pie.
Universal are keeping their mouths shut for the moment, but it’s understood (after reporters jumped in studio dumpsters and ripped open bin sacks in order to find top secret shredded memos on the subject) Harold and Kumar writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, are discussing the prospect of resurrecting the franchise proper.
So what have Jim and Stifler been up to all these years? There’s only really Seann William Scott who has actually done well (along with the Weitz bros) from American Pie.
- 2/18/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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