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RUMBLE FISH / EDGAR WALLACE COLLECTION
Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s Young Adult tone poem, unspools in a black and white never-never land of sullen teens, pool tables…
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The Salesman
This Iranian import made news when its director found himself on the wrong side of the recent travel ban. It's well worth…
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Donnie Darko
Many weird-world genre bending millennial epics have already dated badly, but not Richard Kelly's sci-fi / horror / satirical mind-trip about a…
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Ophélia
New Wave director Claude Chabrol goes off in an odd direction with this Francophone adaptation of Hamlet. Convinced that his father was…
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Caltiki, The Immortal Monster
It creeps and leaps and slides and glides along the wall... and then it eats your face, dude. Mario Bava and Riccardo…
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The Scar
Director Steve Sekely's hardboiled film noir leans heavily on the talents of star-producer Paul Henreid and camera ace John Alton -- the…
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The Rounders
The laid-back, plot challenged non-violent western gets a boost in this folksy comedy about two aging cowboys with less sense than the…
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Buena Vista Social Club
Cuba has just been opened up to Americans, but twenty years ago musician Ry Cooder saw to it that a vanishing music…
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The Delinquents
"Here is the screen's most shocking exposé, of the 'Baby-Facers' just taking their first stumbling steps down Sin Street U.S.A.!" Robert Altman's…
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Fahrenheit 451
François Truffaut's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's dystopian, illiterate future looks better than ever, and the scary part is that some of its…
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CHAMBER OF HORRORS / A GAME OF DEATH
Near the turn of the century a struggling war correspondent named Edgar Wallace began churning out detective stories for British monthlies like…
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy's international breakthrough musical gives us Catherine Deneuve and wall-to-wall Michel Legrand pop-jazz -- it's a different animal than La La…
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Sunset in the West
This charming Roy Rogers oater could reboot interest in vintage 'series' westerns. Basically a film for little kids, it's earnestly played by…
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From Hell It Came
You Axed for it, as Forry would say: the grade Z horror movie that launched a thousand bad puns is also an…
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36 Hours
Long before movies routinely created 'worlds' with their own twisted fantasy logic, only a few paranoid thrillers, usually odd genre items, tried…
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The Saga of Anatahan
Take one fiercely individual auteur fed up with the Hollywood game, put him in Kyoto with a full Japanese film company, and…
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Eyes Without a Face (Bfi Import)
Sometimes a movie is simply too good for just one special edition... Savant reached out to nab a British Region B import…
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Electric Boogaloo, the wild untold story of Cannon Films
Director and documentarian Mark Hartley scores both a film history and comedy success with this 'wild, untold' account of the 1980s film…
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
Can radical theater make a good movie? Elio Petri continues his string of biting social comment movies with a black comedy about…
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Lifeboat
When Alfred Hitchcock films are praised, this 1944 picture tends to get overlooked. Yet it hooks and holds audiences as strongly as…
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Story of Sin
There's plenty of Sin in Walerian Boroczyk's searing movie but little of it can be laid at the feet of its heroine,…
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Ride the High Country
Before he became the flag bearer for cinema violence, Sam Peckinpah made his reputation with this unique western, a marvelous rumination on…
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The Russians are Coming / Career
Another offering of vintage East German pictures gives us all the pieces of a cinematic puzzle: Heiner Carow's 1968 memory- movie of…
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AFTER THE FOX / BEING THERE
After The Fox, a sunny mid-sixties farce about con-artists and movie-makers, boasts a powerhouse pedigree featuring leading men Peter Sellers and Victor Mature,…
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The Vampire Bat
Another impressive horror restoration! Majestic Pictures pulls together a great cast, including Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill, for a smart gothic horror…
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The Skull
Peter Cushing! Christopher Lee! Each is at the top of his game, playing competing collectors of occult incunabula -- the kind that…