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Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970
Get your beret and warm up the espresso! Some of the most famous deep-dish art film is here — in HD — from…
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TWO DOCS ABOUT ECCENTRIC WOMEN AND THEIR ART: KISS THE WATER AND IRIS
A look at the list of my favorite movies from 2014 reveals the presence of six extraordinary nonfiction films, and that’s just…
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Arts in Exile: Nine East German Shorts on Artists Forced to Flee the Nazis
Take a trip into political art history: the state-run East German film company DEFA uses the experiences of Communist artists to promote…
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The Oblong Box
Scream favorites Vincent Price and Christopher Lee become tangled in an African curse, grave robbing, a premature burial and a clutch of…
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The Phantom of the Opera
The latest release of Lon Chaney's most famous silent classic is a Blu-ray, which allows us to marvel at at the actor's…
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Emperor of the North
What would seem the perfect project for tough-guy director Robert Aldrich still commands a high reputation with some. Ambitious top-dog hobo Lee…
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The Honeymoon Killers
The advertising promised a surfeit of sleaze -- but the film is a superior thriller about a real-life, low-rent serial killers from…
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20 YEARS LATER: THE GLORIOUS EXCESS OF SHOWGIRLS, PAUL VERHOEVEN’S NASTY CLASSIC
About five years ago I made my way over to Montana Street in Santa Monica to attend a screening of the magnificently…
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The Satan Bug
Techno-thriller fans have been waiting a long time for a good disc of action ace John Sturges' sci-fi espionage suspenser. George Maharis,…
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The Old Gun
Robert Enrico's literally searing terror tale from the French occupation is not for the faint of heart. Fearing reprisals, surgeon Philippe Noiret…
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Man with the Gun
First-time director Richard Wilson's B&W '50s western is different. Robert Mitchum is on-task as a town tamer with believable problems, both in…
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Turkey Shoot
Brian Trenchard-Smith's outrageous futuristic gore-fest imagines an Australian extermination camp run by the sadistic Michael Craig and Roger Ward, where jaded rich…
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Fat City
John Huston sets the bar for director-driven quality filmmaking of the early 1970s. Stacy Keach is a punchy boxing bum who teams…
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NO THOUGHTS OF LOVE: THE PROFESSIONALS – 1966
“This 1966 western… has the expertise of a cold old whore with practiced hands and no thoughts of love. There’s something to…
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Deutschland 83
How did this sneak by? It's a combo escapist spy story, engrossing soap opera, and historically accurate Cold War flashback to the…
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Eaten Alive
Shaggy maniac Neville Brand was born on the bayou. He lives by his high morals and so just can't resist feeding random visitors…
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‘Breaker’ Morant
Bruce Beresford says that by 1980 most Australians had forgotten that their countrymen had fought in the Boer War, and this scathing…
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The Black Stallion
It was a winner right out of the starting gate, an instant classic that's still a pleasure for the eyes and ears.…
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The Reivers
Steve McQueen spent most of the 1960s avoiding lightweight movie roles -- only to do well with his winning comedy-drama performance in William…
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Unfriended
For anyone who cringes at the words “found footage,” especially when applied to the recent glut of variable-quality horror movies like REC,…
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The Wonderful Country
Let's hear it for the great westerns -- not the Ford and Hawks classics, but the fascinating marginal gems that see The…
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Kings of the Sun
Who needs epics about Ancient Rome, Egypt, or Greek mythology when we have a thousand years of exotic Central and South American civilizations…
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The Bear
Animal movies aren't just for kids anymore, but nobody made one better than this French production, which stars a pair of talented…
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The Little House (Chiisai ouchi)
Forget English soap operas about upstairs and downstairs upheavals, Yoji Yamada's chronicle of a life in the little Tokyo house with the…
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Alraune (1952)
There's one ironclad rule for mad scientist movies: if you show a monstrous caged ape-creature in the first act, that ape-creature must absolutely break loose…