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Budd Wilkins

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , Slant Magazine

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/4	82%	Scarecrow (1973)	" Jerry Schatzberg's film embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon." — Slant Magazine Posted May 16, 2013
	——	The Telephone Book (1971)	" A brilliant and lamentably neglected gem of early-'70s underground filmmaking, The Telephone Book gets the deluxe Blu-ray treatment from Vinegar Syndrome, with a sterling high-definition transfer as well as some choice extras." — Slant Magazine Posted May 14, 2013
3/4	76%	Dead Man's Burden (2013)	" It's always a pleasure to encounter genre ambition contained in such a sinewy-shot, emotionally resonant, and gorgeously photographed package." — Slant Magazine Posted May 1, 2013
	——	Night of the Hunted (1999)	" The most recent Jean Rollin films to make their Blu-ray debut from Kino and Redemption Films mark a significant departure for the filmmaker." — House Next Door Posted Apr 29, 2013
	——	The Grapes of Death (2004)	" The most recent Jean Rollin films to make their Blu-ray debut from Kino and Redemption Films mark a significant departure for the filmmaker." — House Next Door Posted Apr 29, 2013
	91%	The Duellists (1977)	" An obsessively detailed chronicle of obsession, The Duellists gets a sumptuous Blu-ray transfer from Shout! Factory." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/4	56%	Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal (2013)	" Because the film clearly aims for satire, Boris Rodriguez isn't entirely guilty of indulging gruesome spectacle for its own sake." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 3, 2013
	82%	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)	" The game's afoot with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, a more-than-game Sherlock Holmes pastiche, which makes its high-definition debut on Blu-ray sporting a solid transfer and accompanied by a spanking-new interview with writer Nicholas Meyer." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2013
	78%	The Fury (1978)	" Twilight Time unleashes The Fury onto Blu-ray with a moderately successful upgrade in A/V quality and a paucity of extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2013
	100%	That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)	" Lionsgate does right by the swan song of one of cinema's least compromising, most iconoclastic mavericks, with a pristine new transfer and a robustly informative selection of spanking new extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 8, 2013
	86%	The River (1959)	" Jean Renoir's The River demonstrates with intoxicating lyricism the confluence of apparent contraries: past and present, innocence and experience, permanence and change-even Hinduism and Christianity." — House Next Door Posted Mar 1, 2013
	——	La notte dei diavoli (Night of the Devils) (2012)	" A minor masterpiece of Italian horror, Night of the Devils both harkens back to Mario Bava-based gothic horrors as well as anticipates the gory excesses of latter-day Lucio Fulci." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2013
	95%	Best in Show (2000)	" Give Best in Show the Blu-ray ribbon for improved A/V quality. Otherwise, Warner Home Video supplies exactly the same package as previously. " — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2013
	82%	Our Man Flint (1966)	" Pitched somewhere between homage and parody, Our Man Flint looks snazzier than ever in Twilight Time's impressive Blu-ray transfer, rounded out with a compelling roster of extras old and new. All that's missing is a cigarette lighter with 83 uses." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 12, 2013
	100%	Experiment in Terror (1962)	" Experiment in Terror may not exactly terrorize you, but its exquisite monochrome cinematography has never looked more gorgeous than on Twilight Time's Blu-ray." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 31, 2013
	100%	Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood)(My Name Is Ivan)(The Youngest Spy) (1962)	" Now viewers can bask in the film's ample visual delights with Criterion's gorgeous new Blu-ray transfer." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2013
	78%	Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (1979)	" Criterion's release of Volker Schlöndorff's director's cut is occasion enough to bang The Tin Drum loudly. It doesn't hurt that they've provided an impressive new transfer and some choice new extras to round out the package." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2013
	64%	Cosmopolis (2012)	" The specter of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's latest fuck-all wonder, now haunts home video in this pristine Blu-ray transfer, laden with all the contextual cultural capital you could ever hope for." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 3, 2013
3.5/4	92%	Django (1966)	" Sergio Corbucci's film is notable not only for the artistry of its construction, but also for the underlying anger that fuels its political agenda." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 20, 2012
	——	Die Screaming, Marianne (1971)	" Depraved animals and diehard fans of British grindhouse films alike will want to add The Pete Walker Collection to theirs. Kino and Redemption Films have provided these titles with an exemplary Blu-ray package that's stacked with extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2012
	——	The Comeback (Encore) (The Day the Screaming Stopped) (2006)	" Depraved animals and diehard fans of British grindhouse films alike will want to add The Pete Walker Collection to theirs. Kino and Redemption Films have provided these titles with an exemplary Blu-ray package that's stacked with extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2012
	——	Schizo (Amok) (Blood of the Undead) (1976)	" Depraved animals and diehard fans of British grindhouse films alike will want to add The Pete Walker Collection to theirs. Kino and Redemption Films have provided these titles with an exemplary Blu-ray package that's stacked with extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2012
	——	House of Whipcord (Photographer's Models) (1974)	" Depraved animals and diehard fans of British grindhouse films alike will want to add The Pete Walker Collection to theirs. Kino and Redemption Films have provided these titles with an exemplary Blu-ray package that's stacked with extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2012
	14%	Baron Blood (Gli Orrori del Castello di Norimberga) (1972)	" Kino continues to bring the Bava with Baron Blood, a minor but amiable enough entry in the maestro's canon, making its Blu-ray debut and looking better than ever." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2012
4/4	98%	The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie) (1972)	" Dreams nest within other dreams like so many Chinese puzzle boxes, while no dream belongs exclusively to a single dreamer, as though Buñuel were toying with the Jungian notion of the collective unconscious." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 21, 2012
	——	Two Orphan Vampires (2004)	" The wonderfully ambiguous ending plunges the girls back into the fuggy marshland of the archetypal feminine, two orphan animas in search of their apotheosis." — House Next Door Posted Nov 20, 2012
	——	The Living Dead Girl (La Morte vivante) (1999)	" The film's blood-spattered descent into positively Jacobean tragedy helps to make it one of Rollin's strongest, most disturbing efforts." — House Next Door Posted Nov 20, 2012
	——	We Can't Go Home Again (1976)	" Nick Ray's experimental final film finally finds a home on Blu-ray from Oscilloscope, glossed with plenty of contextual extras, including a late-period nugget or two for the completists out there." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 16, 2012
	91%	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960)	" Hag horror doesn't get any better (read: demented) than this. For the film's 50th anniversary, Warner rolls out the red carpet with a sparkling Blu-ray transfer and impressive DigiBook packaging, even if the extras remain the same as on the earlier DVD." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 6, 2012
3/4	100%	Tristana (1970)	" Flanked by late-period masterworks that represent the culmination and perfection of Buñuel's long-cherished obsessions, the film is often relegated to the role of overlooked middle child." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2012
	——	The Reincarnation of Isabel (Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento) (1972)	" For good or ill, Black Magic Rites just might put a spell on you. Kino's newly minted Blu-ray package presents this cult film mainstay in its best (gel-flooded) light yet." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2012
	——	Zivot i smrt porno bande (The Life and Death of a Porno Gang) (2009)	" It emerges as a more politically engaged companion piece to its showier compatriot, A Serbian Film, and Synapse Films gives it an excellent, well-rounded Blu-ray package." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 10, 2012
	96%	Umberto D. (1952)	" Umberto D. wants to break your heart. Criterion's spit-polished Blu-ray upgrade makes that prospect all the more beguiling." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 7, 2012
	100%	A New Leaf (1971)	" Turn it over how you will: A New Leaf looks better than ever in another one of Olive Films' barebones Blu-ray packages." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 5, 2012
	79%	The Deep Blue Sea (2012)	" A tale of two Terences, The Deep Blue Sea gets the deluxe Blu-ray treatment from Music Box Films, with an exemplary transfer and an assortment of illuminating extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2012
	——	Private Hell 36 (Baby Face Killers) (1954)	" Middling noir bolstered by strong central performances and some canny subtext, Private Hell 36 looks reasonably spiffy in Olive Film's no-frills Blu-ray package." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2012
3/4	77%	Samsara (2012)	" Ron Fricke's film is a brightly hued bauble, fit for rapturous contemplation." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2012
3.5/4	64%	Cosmopolis (2012)	" Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 12, 2012
	88%	The Turin Horse (2012)	" When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. Cinema Guild gives Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse a magisterial monochromatic Blu-ray transfer, supplied with a bounteous cornucopia of mostly retrospective supplements." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2012
2.5/4	75%	Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2012)	" The issue remains that this variety of faux-populism seems better suited to the soapbox than the silver screen." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 25, 2012
	——	They Made Me a Fugitive (I Became a Criminal) (1948)	" A slam-bang Brit noir makes its way onto Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber, looking fresher than ever, though with nothing in the way of supplements." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 24, 2012
	78%	Twins of Evil ()	" Double your pleasure, double your evil with Twins of Evil, Synapse Films' two-disc combo pack, looking frightfully good on Blu-ray, and loaded with garlic bunches of extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 20, 2012
	——	Se sei vivo spara (Django Kill - If You Live, Shoot!) (1967)	" Giulio Questi's surrealistic anti-western gets a fine Blu-ray upgrade from Blue Underground, bolstered by the same spate of extras that were included on the previous edition." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2012
3/4	95%	The Queen of Versailles (2012)	" Lauren Greenfield's film evolves from an ode to entitled obliviousness to a more evenhanded character study, tracing the fault lines that develop within the Siegel family." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 17, 2012
	73%	Barbarella (1968)	" Remember, an angel is love. Fall in love with Paramount's splendid Blu-ray transfer of Barbarella, even though it's lamentably light on extras." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 6, 2012
	90%	And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)	" A moving tribute to its subject's life onstage and off, And Everything Is Going Fine gets a solid Blu-ray transfer from Criterion, with several choice supplements." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 30, 2012
	67%	The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (1976)	" Shout! Factory presents The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea in a skeletal Blu-ray package, lacking any extras whatsoever, and boasting a middling, muddy 1080p transfer." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2012
	——	Desire (2012)	" While Desire isn't particularly satisfying, best taken as either a subpar example of parboiled erotica or one lazily sketched character study, the DVD from Strand Releasing is handsome enough." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 11, 2012
—	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	— House Next Door Posted May 29, 2012

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