The One about Norman Jewison’s “In the Heat of the Night” (1967)

Click here to purchase this film on Amazon Back in 1965, author John Ball’s mystery novel “In the Heat of the Night” was released. The book was the first introduction to the character Virgil Tibbs and would lead to sequels “They Call Me Mister Tibbs!” Read More …

The One about Eric Rohmer’s “The Bakery Girl of Monceau” (1963)

Click here to purchase this film on Amazon In 1962, filmmaker Eric Rohmer, a key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema in France and former editor of Cahiers du cinema began working on his seventh film, “The Bakery Girl of Monceau” (La boulangère de Read More …

The One about “The Games of the V Olympiad – Stockholm, 1912” (as part of the “100 Years of Olympic Films – 1912-2012”)

The Criterion Collection released their largest collection set ever, titled “100 Years of Olympic Films – 1912-2012”. Featuring 53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games, presented together for the first time, including the landmark 4K restorations of “Olympia”, “Tokyo Olympiad” and Read More …