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The Awful Truth
Thanks to Louis Armstrong and his fellow geniuses, the Jazz Age transformed a generation and dominated pop culture for close to two…
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Don’t Bother to Knock
"Wash your face, brush your teeth, and say your PRAYERS." Marilyn Monroe's first plunge into a dramatic starring role casts her as…
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Danger Signal
Ah romance! A handsome stranger takes a room in your house, lets you feed him and doesn't pay the rent -- of…
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The Age of Innocence
Martin Scorsese commands the screen without a single profane word or gunshot to the head. His adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel…
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3 Video Nasties from Region B
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton covers a trio of grisly horrors. The Toolbox Murders, Blood Harvest and A Cat in the Brain each…
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Red Planet Mars
It's a review. No, it's a rant. Stop, you're both right. CineSavant's overt mission is to demonstrate that old movies, especially old…
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While the City Sleeps & Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Fritz Lang’s final American films. The amazingly creative Fritz Lang almost singlehandedly pioneered a number of key genres: the fantasy epic, the…
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Joan of Arc (1948)
Does every great actress see Joan of Arc as the ultimate serious role? Ingrid Bergman ran into serious career trouble while this…
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Hotel Berlin
"Grand Hotel. Nazis come. Nazis go. Nothing ever happens." That's a paraphrase from 1932's Grand Hotel, indicating that the hallowed halls once…
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An Actor’s Revenge
From Twelfth Night to Homicidal, casting calls for cross-dressers are a Hollywood tradition. The stories are alike in their differences; Katherine Hepburn…
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The New Centurions
Joseph Wambaugh's breakthrough novel went through a blender to fit George C. Scott into the narrative, but it's still a great cop…
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The Black Scorpion
Wow! Prime stop-motion animation from the heyday of monstrous science fiction, in a new restoration that puts a brilliant shine on those…
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The Seven-Ups
Forget All Singing! - All Dancing! Tonight's bill of fare is wall-to-wall high grade crime action. Roy Scheider leads a great cast…
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A Trip to the Moon
In the fall of 1886 the magician Georges Méliès was filming near the Place de l’Opera when his camera jammed for a…
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Otley
Few latecomer '60s spy movies were big successes. This amusing Brit effort sank without a trace, perhaps taking with it the career…
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Basket Case
Classic Midnite Cult movies were a mini-phenomenon chosen by the public, created by word of mouth approval. Frank Henenlotter's wild 'n' weird…
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Underworld U.S.A.
Sam Fuller turns the crime film inside-out with this tale of on infiltrator taking down the syndicate. Vengeful Cliff Robertson uses both…
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The Color of Pomegranates
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton assesses the Armenian director Sergei Parajanov's poetic and metaphor-filled biopic about his countryman Sayat Nova, the Armenian poet-troubadour.…
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Women in Love
Finally -- a satisfying home video edition of Ken Russell's absorbing, argument-starting classic, in which D. H. Lawrence's quartet of bohemians attempt…
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Liquid Sky
Remembered as a briefly hot quasi- avant-garde title, then a cult item, Slava Tsukerman's brightly colored movie is said to capture a…
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Robert Altman’s ‘Images’
Do we sometimes 'grow into' movies? This one now plays like a minor masterpiece. 'Seventies auteur Robert Altman proves himself an expert…
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The Outer Limits Season One
Wow — somebody took their sweet time about it, but we finally have a quality Blu-ray set of an entire generation’s favorite…
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
For over a century the story of Joan of Arc has been catnip to an army of filmmakers ranging from DeMille to…
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Dragonwyck
Before Vincent Price haunted houses, he chalked up plenty of experience as a Broadway star and a versatile character actor. This superb Joseph…
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The Drowning Pool
'Harper Days Are Here Again,' reads the advertising tag line for this worthy follow-up to Paul Newman's first outing as Ross Macdonald's…
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King of Jazz
Make room for a genuine rarity, come back from the cinema graveyard in excellent condition: a lavish color musical extravaganza from 1930…