THE BOOTLEG FILES: SHA NA NA
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil urges you to grease for peace…
Posted on September 28, 2012 by Phil Hall
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 53 minutes |
This restored version helps to turn “Magical Mystery Tour” into a great-looking film, if not a great film…
Posted on September 24, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: FRIDAYS
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil remembers a loud “SNL” rip-off…
Posted on September 21, 2012 by Phil Hall
JAMES L. NEIBAUR REVISITS HARRY LANGDON’S SILENT COMEDIES
Film historian James L. Neibaur takes a fresh look at one of the most polarizing figures in film comedy…
Posted on September 20, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE GREY FOX
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil digs up a long-lost Canadian gem…
Posted on September 14, 2012 by Phil Hall
THIS IS CINERAMA (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
Hopefully, some enterprising theater exhibitors will reconfigure their cinemas to allow the three-camera Cinerama films another chance on the very, very big screen…
Posted on September 12, 2012 by Phil Hall
SONG OF THE SOUL: STORIES OF HOSPICE IN SOUTH AFRICA
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 40 minutes |
Parrott’s film provides a glimpse of how that country’s urban and rural hospices are providing a lifeline for people who struggle to stay alive amid crushing poverty and a continuing social stigma against those with the disease…
Posted on September 10, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE GREAT SPACE COASTER
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil looks up his old pal Gary Gnu…
Posted on September 7, 2012 by Phil Hall
MOWING THROUGH MISERY
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
There is a new one-man-band in indie film, and he is Ohio’s Steve Boatman…
Posted on September 7, 2012 by Phil Hall
DAVID COPPERFIELD (DVD)
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 40 minutes |
What emerges is a series of beautifully realized vignettes that captures the spirit of the Dickens novel…
Posted on September 5, 2012 by Phil Hall
LES MISERABLES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 181 minutes |
Sadly, the U.S. DVD release is missing a half-hour from the original broadcast, and it also kept the French-language soundtrack at home.
Posted on September 1, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: CRAZY HOUSE
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil digs up a comedy that should have remained buried…
Posted on August 31, 2012 by Phil Hall
FIDEL (DVD)
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
Castro is uncommonly frank about the failings of the revolution in the decade following his rise to power…
Posted on August 28, 2012 by Phil Hall
LAST WILL AND EMBEZZLEMENT
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
Deborah Louise Robinson’s documentary focuses on a significant problem that is silently growing with alarming speed: financial elder abuse…
Posted on August 25, 2012 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: TAG DER FREIHEIT – UNSERE WEHRMACHT
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil heils right in Der Fuhrer’s face…
Posted on August 24, 2012 by Phil Hall