Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links

Zen
This week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the possibility of a few more to be added over the course of the day. As always, thanks to all you who read as well as those who contribute these...and if I've overlooked your or someone else's review or citation, please let me know in comments.

Bill Crider: Father Goose; [trailer]

Brian Arnold: L. A. Doctors

B. V. Lawson: Media Murder

David Cranmer (as Edward Grainger): Tom Selleck's westerns

Masters of Sex
George Kelley: Masters of Sex

Evan Lewis: Overlooked A/V (mostly films) of 2013

How Did This Get Made?: Deck the Halls

Iba Dawson: Oscar Micheaux

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: East Side, West Side;  The Last Tycoon

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid"

Jackie Kashian: Corey Olsen, of The Tolkien Professor

The Losers
James Reasoner: The Losers (2010 film based on comics series)

Jeff Flugel: The Year in Review

Jeff Segal:  This feature-length interview with [the recently late Something Weird Video label founder) Mike Vraney dates back a few years but reveals how he fell into the cult video market, came to associate with a score of exploitation directors and producers and details his many adventures searching out this stuff. Once dvd superseded laser and video, Vraney really could have fun, cramming all of those extras onto each dvd, which, as Pearce noted, were often superior to the motion picture they were supporting on the disk. This "mix tape" aspect of Something Weird dvds is covered quite extensively in the interview. 

Jerry House: "The Butcher Boy" (1917 Keaton/Arbuckle short film)

John Charles: 2013: The Year in Movies

Kate Laity: Pingu's The Thing...remade with cats rather than penguins:  (Why?)  


Kliph Nesteroff: Pat Carroll: The Kraft Music Hall with Don Rickles; The Steve Allen Show with Johnny Carson

Laura: Man Bait; Scotland Yard Inspector
Birds of a Feather

Lucy Brown: Birds of a Feather

Martin Edwards: The Thirteenth Tale

Father Goose
Marty McKee: Ninja: Shadow of a Tear; 672 television shows

Mike Tooney: 2 Ironside episodes

Mystery Dave: In the Loop

Patti Abbott: M*A*S*H: "Abyssinia, Henry"

Peter Enfantino, John Scoleri and Jack Seabrook: Our Favorites from 2013

Prashant Trikannad: Michael Crawford

Randy Johnson: Three Strangers; Sabata (aka Ehi amico...c'e' Sabata, hai chiuso!)

Rick: The Hasty Heart; Hercules in the Haunted World; Sapphire and Steel

Rod Lott: Grand Slam; The Psychic (1977 film)

Ron Scheer: Zen

Scott Cupp (returned from the electronic infection wars): Solomon Kane

Endless Night
Sergio Angelini: Endless Night (1972 film); Marple: "Endless Night" 

Stacia Jones: Law Enforcement in the Films of John Huston

Stephen Bowie: Richard DeRoy

Steve Lewis: Goin' South

Vince Keenan: Henny Youngman documentary project

Yvette Banek: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

***Related: 

Ascetic Shopper: Tim Russert and food porn (Press the Meat)

Kelly Robinson: The Worst Typos (including in electronic media) of 2013 

Todd Mason: 1966 nostalgia/pop culture/humor magazine P. S.; 

& the worst, if also the only, film about humans (and only humans among all life on Earth) being turned into small piles of sand by a solar flare, directly or indirectly: 

Where Have All the People Gone? (The Movie of the Week, 1974 ABC)

5 comments:

Yvette said...

Todd I'll have a post for the list shortly. Thanks for your forbearance kiddo. I'm feeling better - horray! :)

Todd Mason said...

Excellent, Yvette! And now posted.

Ron Scheer said...

I see you went on a hunt for Caterina Marino. Nice one.

Todd Mason said...

I like the rather enigmatic still from MASTERS OF SEX almost as much...

Rod Lott said...

ZEN is so amazing, it'd still be amazing if Caterina weren't so amazing. But she is hot-damn amazing.