Restored Mexican films

Powerhouse Indicator Films has recently released two Mexican films from the 1960s on Blu-ray.

The Bat Woman

The Panther Women

I have them but haven’t watched them yet. I have seen prior releases of both films and they are minor but entertaining.

Holy bikini-clad Batwoman! Archive saves Mexico’s scorned popular films

UCLA Permanicia Voluntaria

Powerhouse has also released several Santo films which I will post about later.

Tweets and YouTube videos about the film Casablanca

There’s also a fine book about it:

The New Republic on the 100 most significant political films

This is an excellent list and The Battle of Algiers is a worthy #1. Two lesser-known films I recommend are #29, The Great McGinty and #30 Gabriel Over the White House. Gabriel is a really unique film. I don’t agree with a lot of what it says but it’s well worth watching.

Tweet on Bunuel’s Viridiana

Luis Bunuel’s great Viridiana (1961) was banned in Spain where it was filmed.

The Criterion Collection has released it as a DVD.

Tweet on where to watch Star Trek

I was not a Star Trek fan back in the 1960s when it was on TV.  I did watch the three movies that were made in the 2010s.

Then I bought the box set of the first 10 Star Trek films.

Since then I have watched discs of the recent Star Trek TV shows

From best to worst:

The first two seasons of Strange New Worlds – excellent

The first four seasons of Discovery – very good

The three seasons of Picard – ok

Tweets on physical media 4/21/24

Tweets on Shaun of the Dead

“Shaun of the Dead” was released 20 years ago. It’s a great zombie comedy.