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Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in Reflections In A Golden Eye is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Ordering info can be found Here

“An Army post in peacetime is a dull place.” So begins Carson McCullers’ famous novel of secret passion, Reflections in a Golden Eye. But beneath the smooth surface of military routine, a deadly tension mounts. Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando star in this startling screen version that, like the book, crackles with mysterious, exotic energy. They play the Pendertons: He’s a hidebound career officer wrestling with inner demons; she’s a caged lioness needful of love, whatever the source. Their off-kilter relationship plays out under the voyeuristic gaze of a soldier (Robert Forster) soon to become the focal point of tragedy. Provocatively directed by John Huston, and costarring Brian Keith and Julie Harris in moving supporting performances, this spellbinder is powerful and complex — just like that emotion called love.

New York University's Black List-inspired annual selection of the best production-ready screenplays from its Tisch School of the Arts graduate film students and recent alumni, known as The Purple List, has revealed its 2019 picks.

The three screenplays, selected by a panel of industry professionals, are Dry Summer, The Starling Girl and Two Sisters.

Dry Summer, by Lakshmi Simhan, follows a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town on the Columbia River Gorge and finds herself torn between her parents as they split. She ultimately befriends a kid from the local, isolated Ukrainian Pentecostal community, exposing her to poverty, racism, religion ...

New York University's Black List-inspired annual selection of the best production-ready screenplays from its Tisch School of the Arts graduate film students and recent alumni, known as The Purple List, has revealed its 2019 picks.

The three screenplays, selected by a panel of industry professionals, are Dry Summer, The Starling Girl and Two Sisters.

Dry Summer, by Lakshmi Simhan, follows a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town on the Columbia River Gorge and finds herself torn between her parents as they split. She ultimately befriends a kid from the local, isolated Ukrainian Pentecostal community, exposing her to poverty, racism, religion ...

Matt and Travis join Aaron again to get into the best way to eat ramen inspired by Tampopo, the likelihood of Cannes restorations coming to Criterion, whatever is the deal with Fire Walk With Me, winners at Cannes, Olympic films and the potential fit with Criterion, and plenty more.

Episode Notes

13:30 – Tampopo

24:00 – Cannes Classics 2017

30:00 – Closet Video, Phantom Pages

39:00 – Fire Walk With Me

45:00 – Short Takes (The Thin Red Line, Black Narcissus, Dry Summer)

56:00 – FilmStruck

Episode Links Criterion Now – Facebook Group Criterion Considered – Facebook Group Slacker Poster Lost in America Poster Isabella Morawetz Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks Weekend Scripts – The Lord of the Fyre Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter | Website | Letterboxd Matt Gasteieir: Twitter | Letterboxd Travis Trudell: Instagram Criterion Now: Twitter | Facebook Group Criterion Cast: Facebook | Twitter

Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.

This week we get into the gutter with Dave Eves and James Hancock as we play a game about the biggest jerks on film. We also talk about the lineup from Cannes, Michael Ballhaus, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, and the latest from FilmStruck.

Episode Notes

7:45 – Jerks in Film

22:30 – R.I.P. Michael Ballhaus

26:00 – Cannes 2017

34:30 – Wishlist and Predictions for July Releases

38:30 – Short Takes (Dry Summer, Straw Dogs, Stagecoach)

49:00 – FilmStruck

Episode Links Wrong Reel 230 – Dave Eves and His Criterion Top Five Wrong Reel 249 – Disaster Movies of the 1970s Eclipse Viewer 54 – Duvivier in the 1930s Part One Michael Ballhaus Dies at 81 Cannes 2017 Lineup All of the Films Joining FilmStruck this April Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter | Website | Letterboxd Dave Eves: Twitter James Hancock: Twitter | Podcast Criterion Now: Twitter Criterion Cast: Facebook | Twitter

Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.

The Housemaid

Written by Kim Ki-young

Directed by Kim Ki-young

South Korea, 1960

In 2013, the Criterion Collection released a Blu-Ray/DVD box set called ‘Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project’, featuring six films from other countries, either dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, which have been digitally restored by the efforts of Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation. It should come as no surprise that Scorsese is a cineaste at heart and his love for foreign films, particularly those that have dropped in obscurity, shines thru these presentations. However, like with films that are re-discovered and/or re-evaluated, occasionally you’ll find some that live up to their reputation or not. For my money, the best film in the set is the 1964 Turkish melodrama Dry Summer (1964; Turkish title: Susuz Yaz), which I have already reviewed and sang praises for. The other films in the set include The Journey of the...

Dry Summer

Written by Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci, and Ismet Soydan

Directed by Metin Erksan

Turkey, 1964

In 2013, the Criterion Collection released a Blu-Ray/DVD box-set entitled ‘Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project’. The box set consists of six films from various parts of the world that have received high-quality restorations, thanks to the assistance of Martin Scorsese and The Film Foundation. And yet, it has to be said that some of the films Scorsese had commissioned for restoration and home video release leave a lot to be desired: Djibril Diop Mambety’s The Journey of the Hyena (1973; Wolof title: Touki Bouki) is a Senegalese-made bore of a chore to sit thru as it imitates the horrid French New Wave works of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard; The Wave (1936; Spanish title: Redes), an American-Mexican co-production between directors Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gomez Muriel and photographer Paul Strand, which is a short...

Dry Summer

Written by Metin Erksan, Kemal Inci and Ismet Soydan

Directed by Metin Erksan

Turkey, 1964

Trances

Written and directed by Ahmed El Maânouni

Morocco, 1981

The Housemaid

Written by Kim Ki-young (screenplay by Kim Jeong-sook)

Directed by Kim Ki-young

South Korea, 1960

The three titles rounding out The Criterion Collection set showcasing six films preserved and newly remastered through Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project are markedly different, not only from each other, but from the three features covered last week in this column. Dry Summer, Trances, and The Housemaid maintain a strong sense of cultural identification and examination, but opposed to the previous three films, which exist somewhere between “docu-fiction” and a slightly indefinite art house categorization, these movies fall more in line with standard generic conventions. That is not to say, however, that they are in any way conventional. Within the recognizable forms of, roughly, the melodrama, the musical documentary,...

Redes

Written by Agustin Velásquez Chávez and Paul Strand

Directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann

Mexico, 1936

A River Called Titas

Written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak

Bangladesh, 1973

Touki bouki

Written and directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty

Senegal, 1973

The Criterion Collection set assembling films rediscovered through the efforts of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project is one of the company’s premier achievements. Bringing together six diverse titles from six different regions of the globe, the collection is a treasure trove for those seeking obscure, rare, and fascinating works that extend well beyond film history’s conventional canon. As stated by Criterion itself, “Each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders on-screen.” The set also emphasizes, through its calling attention to the efforts of the Wcp initiative, just how necessary and beneficial film preservation and restoration can be. The films included here are only...

Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week

"Fast & Furious 6"

What's It About? Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Vin Diesel, and the late Paul Walker reunite with Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, and future Wonder Woman Gal Gadot to put the pedal to the medal in the sixth iteration of this car-racing series. Can our favorite speed freaks outwit and outdrive a gang of drivers led by a British baddie named Shaw (Luke Evans)?

Why We're In: Besides the fact that some of the DVD earnings will be donated to the late Paul Walker's charity Reach Out Worldwide, this is the perfect guilty-pleasure action film to pop on with a bunch of friends. It's worth it for the runway scene alone.

Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week

"Big" (25th Anniversary Edition)

What's It About? Before Tom Hanks saved "Mr. Banks," he won our hearts as a little...

The Hunt Even though it played the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, I didn't see Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt until this year and it is a contender for my year end top ten. In my review I said it's "an emotional drama" that's "every bit a thriller that will have you pounding your fists in rage, both at the situation as depicted on the screen as well as in some of Vinterberg's more frustrating storytelling decisions." It's not an all out perfect film, but it is undeniably great and worth the watch.

Fast & Furious 6 The Fast & Furious franchise continues and with it comes an extended version of Fast & Furious 6 as well as a preview of Fast & Furious 7, or at least what it was going to be depending on whether or not they move forward with the film in the same capacity as originally planned before the untimely death of Paul Walker.

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 10, 2013

Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $124.95

Studio: Criterion

Established by filmmaker Martin Scorsese in 2007, Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the Wcp is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India (A River Called Titas), Mexico (Redes), Morocco (Trances), Senegal (Touki bouki), South Korea (The Housemaid), and Turkey (Dry Summer); each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders.

Here’s a breakdown of all six:

Touki Bouki (1973)

Touki Bouki (1973, In Wolof with English subtitles)

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama,...

The Criterion Collection has announced that its December releases are set to include Martin Scorsese's "World Cinema Project," a box set containing six handpicked films from around the world that the famed director considers "precious to me"; Robert Altman's "Nashville"; Italian filmmaker Elio Petri's "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion"; and a Blu-ray edition of the classic documentary "Grey Gardens." Scorsese's "World Cinema Project" set includes the digitally restored films "Touki Bouki" (Senegal), "Redes" (Mexico), "A River Called Titas" (Bangladesh/India), "Dry Summer" (Turkey), "Trances" (Morocco) and "The Housemaid" (South Korea).  A landmark 1970s American tragic comedy and musical about the interconnected lives of 24 characters, Criterion's "Nashville" release will, in addition to dual Blu-ray and DVD formats, include a new documentary about the making of the film and archival interviews and audio commentary from Altman. From filmmaking provocateur Petri,...

Ömer Lütfi Akad, a pioneer of Turkish cinema who made over 40 films between 1948 and 1974 (and would carry on directing for television through 1979), died yesterday at the age of 95. Bilge Ebiri has essentially broken the news to the English-speaking world:

Along with Metin Erksan (director of the recently-restored Dry Summer), Akad was probably one of the two senior giants of Turkish cinema during a rather significant time — the period in the 1950s and 60s when the medium was moving away from the canned-theater efforts of early pioneers like Muhsin Ertugrul and starting to tackle more complicated material, against pretty much every odd in the universe. Neither society nor technology had yet caught up to the imaginations of these artists. The equipment was still ancient (the first Turkish film to edit together two separate audio tracks wouldn't come until 1978) and so was the political atmosphere: the country was at the time entering...

Hopscotch Films and Umbrella Entertainment have become the first Australian distributors to sign a deal with the on-demand platform Mubi, as the service launches on Sony’s PlayStation 3.

The agreement will see their catalogue join the thousands of independent and art house films in Mubi’s catalogue, and their new titles released day-and-date with the DVD/Blu-ray.

According to Cakarel, Australian distributors, rights’ owners and producers are “very progressive and open to new things”, and Mubi is currently in discussions with other potential sources of local content.

Starting today, PlayStation users will be able to download a free application to access Mubi and stream its content directly to their TV screens. Its collection includes content from major international studios and partners such as Celluloid Dreams and Martin Scorsese’s World cinema Foundation.

The service, however, is not a platform developed for emerging filmmakers to promote their films. Mubi has a...

 Boston Phoenix film critic Peter Keough recommends two foreign films being shown at the Paramount Center in downtown Boston this Friday and Saturday, through ArtsEmerson. Dry Summer (1964, Turkey) and Agrarian Utopia (2009, Thailand) are two films that foreign film enthusiasts will likely not have any other opportunity to view on the big screen, ever. The Brattle announces registration is now open for their yearly Watch-a-thon fundraiser. The principle is simple: see as any films on the big screen between October 29th and December 1st. You can win some great prizes and help the...

In our latest world cinema column, Nick embarks on a whistle stop tour of countries and their most notable films, starting with Europe…

I've sais before: the lure of the unknown is what attracts people to seek out world cinema. Discovering new places and new people is intoxicating, and the thrill of it can often be replicated in cinema, and what keeps us seeking it out.

Not all of us can make the journey in reality, but we can still experience the wonders nonetheless. With that in mind, I decided I'd shake up the column a bit and introduce a new section.

Over the next couple of weeks, I thought I'd take you all on a once in a lifetime round-the-world trip, visiting every continent and making hundreds of emotional connections with places and people, all via the medium of film. And if you're thinking this is corny bullshit, well then you may be right,...

David E. Durston, a writer and director best known for the 1970 cult horror classic "I Drink Your Blood," died May 6 in his West Hollywood home of complications from pneumonia. He was 88.

Durston wrote for such ground-breaking TV shows as "Playhouse 90," "Studio One," "Rheingold Playhouse," "Tales of Tomorrow" -- one of the earliest science-fiction anthology shows -- "Kraft Theater" and "Danger."

He also produced the NBC musical variety show "Your Hit Parade" as well as the annual broadcast of the Tournament of Roses Parade for all three major TV networks during the late 1950s. Durston continued to write and develop original screenplays into his late 80s.

In the mid-'60s, he made the jump into directing his own low-budget, independent features. The first of these was "The Love Statue," a 1966 black-and-white fantasy that explored the effects of LSD on a group of Greenwich Village bohemians.

Later, Jerry Gross of distributor...

Semih Kaplanoglu’s Turkish drama Honey, the final installment of an autobiographical trilogy that began with Egg (2007) and Milk (2008), was the unexpected winner of the 2010 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear. Honey was the second Turkish film [not the first as previously reported] to win the Golden Bear. The first one was Metin Erksan’s Susuz yaz — as per the IMDb, known variously as Dry Summer, I Had My Brother’s Wife, and Reflections — in 1964. Additionally, Fatih Akin’s Head-On, a German-Turkish co-production set in Germany, won in 2004. Set in a mountainous forest, Honey tells the story of a six-year-old boy (Bora Altas) who ventures into the woods after his wild honey-collecting father has gone missing. "The central performance is [...]...

The way we watch movies is changing. And no one knows how, in the not so distant future, cinema's going to be consumed -- especially those independent and art films that are increasingly unloved by the Hollywood distribution system. Multiplexes may not be the place for defiantly indie cinema, but are iPods, Xboxes, laptops and flat-screens their next best hope?

There are entrepreneurs who are betting on it, which has led to the recent spread of web sites dedicated to putting harder to find films online, from the documentary-centric SnagFilms to the highfalutin internet cinematheque The Auteurs. If there's one thing that these sites share in today's tough economic climate, it's a boldness to try something new when most businesses are scaling back -- that, and the fact that they all have founders who are filthy rich.

For the record: SnagFilms' Ted Leonsis is a former key executive at AOL...