Neither are doing their best work here, but Forster and Brian Keith are strikingly good, and while the most explicitly psychological material (like the title explainer) has more than a whiff of bullshit, Huston’s visual manifestations of these themes are undeniably potent, and often haunting. But it’s also clear that audiences weren’t ready to wrestle with this kind of psychosexual subtext in a major entertainment, and its explorations of masculinity and masochism are endlessly fascinating – particularly when personified by Robert Forster, properly and effectively enigmatic as an object of desire (and, thus, derision) for both Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. Performance Worth Watching: Robbie is so committed to entertaining us as. “ Reflections in a Golden Eye ”: John Huston’s 1967 melodrama (new on Blu, as are the rest of this week’s picks, from Warner Archive) notoriously tanked on its initial release, and it’s not hard to see why it could politely be described as “overwrought,” and its ending doesn’t land at all. Birds of Prey is the happy medium between the grim humorlessness of Joker and the randy ultraviolent yuks of Deadpool. Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto turn in career-best work as (respectively) a police detective on the take and the idealistic rookie he’s paired with, but the most haunting turn in the picture comes from the recently-departed Paul Benjamin – best known as one of the cornermen in “ Do the Right Thing” – as a criminal who knows he’s on a road to oblivion.
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“ Across 110th Street ”: Most modern audiences only know Barry Shear’s rough-edged 1972 crime drama for its melodic theme song, which Quentin Tarantino brilliantly reappropriated for “ Jackie Brown.” But the source movie (newly available on Prime Video) is an absolute all-timer, a bleak tale of suicidal stick-up men, crooked cops, and ruthless criminal underlords. We’ve also got two absolute classics on Prime (one of them joining the Criterion Collection), and a trio of catalog titles from the fine folks at Warner Archive. The 90-ish day theatrical-to-home video window means that two of the last major releases before The Dark Time are finally arriving on disc this week (previously only available as PVOD), and both are at least worth a look. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K.
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