Category Archives: Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month

I was reading about Current 93’s influences and I ran across this classic film. Alain Resnais’ 1955 documentary Nuit et brouillard (aka Night and Fog) is incredibly difficult to watch at times. It accounts for the atrocities committed in the … Continue reading →

Salaam Bombay!, which is one of my top five favourite films of all time, is a 1988 Hindi film told with great detail and introspect. It tells of a young Hindi boy named Krishna who lives in the rural areas of India … Continue reading →

I watched this Frank Cole film with Grant a few months back at the National Archives and it still haunts me. It’s a Canadian documentary about a relatively young man who decides to cross the Sahara Desert alone and despite … Continue reading →

Winter’s Bone, the film adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name, is an engaging, resonating film that won one of the Grand Jury Prizes at the Sundance Film Festival last year, and emerges as one of 2010’s finest … Continue reading →

Technically, it hasn’t been released on DVD yet, but Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film Valhalla Rising is so awesome that I can’t resist talking about it. Known in his Danish homeland for the ultraviolent Pusher crime trilogy, Refn has already … Continue reading →

Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Zwartboek (aka Black Book) is a bit of a departure from his Hollywood films, returning to the roots of his Dutch culture to create one of his finest films in years. He still manages to retain … Continue reading →

Piers Paolo Pasolin’s 1972 adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval classic poem The Canterbury Tales remains to be one of the few (if any) adaptations of Chaucer’s most realized work, and perhaps the truest. It’s a wild series of bawdy tales, … Continue reading →

Although this bears little resemblance to any Poe poem, Michael Reeves’ 1968 film Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) is a riveting piece of art that truly stands the test of time. Screen legend Vincent Price stars as the Witchfinder … Continue reading →