The MGM LE Collection has already been hugely hit or miss both in terms of technical quality and the strength of the films released. I’ve seen ten discs thus far, with three more here for review, and the only certified winner is the long-awaited DVD debut of Samuel Fuller’s Park Row. It’s a great, important [...]

Samuel Fuller says in Pierrot le fou that “film is like a battleground. Love. Hate. Action. Violence. Death. In one word, emotion.” Fuller wrote in his autobiography that he didn’t know what director Jean-Luc Godard expected from him on the set, that there hadn’t been any rehearsal, and the scene was done in a single [...]

There’s an exhilaration that comes from watching a Sam Fuller picture. You know it’s Fuller who wrote it. You know he was the one barking from behind the camera between cigar puffs. You know he took pieces of his own experiences - maybe something from the newspaper days or his time in WWII - and [...]