Author: Peter J Patrick

  • Home Viewing with Peter #871

    Home Viewing with Peter #871

    Now that the 2023 Oscars are over, this is a good time to look back at previous Oscars to get a perspective on how the year’s best film might fare over time. Looking back at the Oscars of the years 2003, 1983, 1963, and 1943 gives us a snapshot of those Oscar nominated and winning…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #870

    Home Viewing with Peter #870

    The Criterion Collection and Kino Lorber have both released 4K UHD restored versions of classic films that were produced by the legendary Hal Wallis. Raoul Walsh’s 1939 film The Roaring Twenties was made during Wallis’ tenure as chief of production at Warner Brothers, while John Sturges’ 1957 film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was made…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #869

    Home Viewing with Peter #869

    As Oscar voting draws to a close, all this year’s Best Picture nominees are available for home viewing in one form or another. I finally got to see the last remaining nominee I hadn’t seen last week. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest can be found on Apple TV and other platforms. The Holocaust drama…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #868

    Home Viewing with Peter #868

    Kino Lorber has released 1945’s Blood on the Sun on Blu-ray. Made by James Cagney’s production company, the film about a reporter’s efforts to expose Japanese Prime Minister Baron Gi-ichi Tanaka’s militarist strategic plan for world domination prepared for Emperor Hirohito in 1929, was the actor’s most successful film between his Oscar winning performance in…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #867

    Home Viewing with Peter #867

    Kino Lorber has released a 4K UHD edition of Fritz Lang’s 1945 film Scarlet Street that is worth seeking out. Released on Christmas Day 1945 in Baltimore, Maryland, Lang’s film noir masterpiece was banned by the New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta censors for being “licentious, profane, obscure, and contrary to the good order of the…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #866

    Home Viewing with Peter #866

    Criterion has released Dee Rees’Mudbound on Blu-ray, making the 2017 Netflix film finally available to home video collectors. Nominated for four Oscars including Best Adapted Screenplay (Rees and Virgil Williams), Cinematography (Rachel Morrison), Supporting Actress (Mary J. Blige), and Original Song (“Mighty River” co-written by Blige), the film won numerous awards for its ensemble cast…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #865

    Home Viewing with Peter #865

    Anatomy of a Fall is now available on pay-per-view prior to its streaming debut on Hulu. Nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture, Actress, Directing, Original Screenplay, and Film Editing, Anatomy of a Fall is a French film in which the lead is played by a German actress whose character’s language of choice is English.…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #864

    Home Viewing with Peter #864

    Having caught up with most, if not all, the contenders for this this year’s Oscars available for streaming on the various platforms, I decided to watch a film on Netflix that had been a minor contender for Oscar consideration two years ago. Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees did manage a nomination for an AARP Movies for…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #863

    Home Viewing with Peter #863

    Kino Lorber has released a Blu-ray of Douglas Sirk’s 1952 musical comedy, Has Anybody Seen My Gal, a rare departure from the master of 1950s melodrama. Sirk, who began as a director in Germany in 1934, was forced to leave the country in 1937 when his first wife and mother of his only child denounced…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #862

    Home Viewing with Peter #862

    Three box office hits from the 1990s have been newly released in spectacular looking 4K UHD editions, all three of them being successful follow-ups to the even the bigger hits of their stars – Kevin Costner, John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, and Leonardo DiCaprio. 1991’s JFK was the passion project of director Oliver Stone fresh on…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #861

    Home Viewing with Peter #861

    At the end of a year or the beginning of the next one is a time to look back over the previous year’s crop of releases. Traditionally for me, that means two things. The first is looking over the past year’s home video releases which have dwindled to a precious few and have been covered…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #860

    Home Viewing with Peter #860

    One of the most highly anticipated films of 2023, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, now streaming on Netflix, has been in the works for years. Actor-writer-producer-director Cooper first became enamored of conducting an orchestra at the age of 8, 40 years ago. He co-wrote the screenplay about the most famous of modern conductors, Leonard Bernstein (1918-2000), with…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #859

    Home Viewing with Peter #859

    The Home Video Santa has been busy. The Criterion Collection has released Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio on 4K UHD a year after the film released briefly in theatres and then on Netflix. Fortunately, unlike most films that go straight to Netflix with or without a brief theatrical showing, this one has earned a much-deserved Criterion…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #858

    Home Viewing with Peter #858

    Three classics from the 1970s through the 1990s have just been released on 4K Ultra HD while a fourth, recently given a 4K restoration, has been newly released on standard Blu-ray. Nominated for 14 Oscars, tying All About Eve’s then 47-year-old record, winning 11, tying Ben-Hur’s then 38-year-old record, James Cameron’s 1997 film, Titanic, also…

  • Home Viewing with Peter #857

    Home Viewing with Peter #857

    Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is currently streaming on pay-for-view where you can find this highly anticipated film that takes place at a Massachusetts prep school during Christmas break in December 1970. Although the film received mostly glowing reviews from the critics, some objected to the film as not being indicative of a 70s movie, which…

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