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Eureka
Nicolas Roeg's bizarre blend of high drama, searing sex and over-the-top brutality waited a year, only to be given a tiny American…
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The VVitch
This is not your garden-variety horror picture -- its scares stem from primal guilt and fear of supernatural demons and devils that…
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Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy
A major talent of the New German Cinema finds his footing out on the open highway, in a trio of intensely creative…
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Edge of Doom
Remember Charlie Chaplin's 'The Killer with a Heart?' You too will be frustrated by this well-produced story of a slum kid who…
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Cad, bounder, dastard... look those words up in an old casting directory and you'll probably find a picture of George Sanders. Albert…
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Garden of Evil
Bernard Herrmann music + weird landscapes = Nirvana. This big-star western tale has an unbreakable story but terrible dialogue and weak characters.…
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That’s Sexploitation!
Aside from the obvious appeal of this smörgásbord of dirty movie delights, cult director Frank Henenlotter hosts a good history of soft-core…
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The Naked Island
Don't let your boss see this movie, it'll give them ideas. Writer-director Kaneto Shindo reduces the human drama to its basics, as…
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A Married Woman
Here's something special, a Godard movie about people as much as concepts, and the dialogue doesn't sound as if it belongs in…
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Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Banished by Josef Goebbels and threatened by the Reich, the creative core of the German film industry found itself in sunny Los…
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Mustang
This one will get to you. Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven takes on a difficult subject -- the terrible treatment of young girls…
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The Chase (1946)
An exercise in dizzy disorientation, this Cornell Woolrich crazy-house noir pulls the rug out from under the audience at least three times.…
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What?
What is this -- a naughty sex odyssey as absurdist art? Or a non-PC slice of sleazy art film exploitation? Either way…
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A Kiss Before Dying
Robert Wagner as a social climbing psycho killer? I knew it! 'Mr. CinemaScope Smile' grins only once or twice in this movie,…
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Stand back, watch the fur fly and don't forget to duck -- this is surely the most psychologically toxic play ever adapted…
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Phoenix
What's contemporary Europe got that we ain't got? Powerful, serious filmmaking like that by Christian Petzold, starring the impressive Nina Hoss. Their…
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Candy
The dirty book of the '60s became an all-star dirty movie with Brando, Burton, Starr, Coburn, Matthau, Astin, Aznavour and Huston all…
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In a Lonely Place
It's a different Bogart -- a character performance in a Nicholas Ray noir about distrust anxiety in romance. Gloria Grahame is the…
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Janis: Little Girl Blue
An amazing talent gone way too soon, Janis Joplin is more than her boozy, brash public image. This bio docu has the…
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Where to Invade Next
America's favorite gadfly has made something worth watching -- a European tour of Great Ideas that American would do well to steal…
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Julia
One of the best-remembered dramas of the '70s gives us controversial actresses, a lavish production and a story by the even more…
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Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents
These are the Eyes that Satirize! Everybody's seen their imagery but few know the story of these anonymous performance artists and their…
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
The irrepressible Sam Fuller fashions a crime thriller for German TV with his expected eccentricity: old-fashioned hardboiled scripting, freeform direction and bits…
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When You’re Older, Dear Adam & Berlin Around the Corner
Berlin Around the Corner DVD Defa Film Library 1966-90 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Berlin um die…
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In the French Style
It's a genuine forgotten gem: American student Jean Seberg's five-year adventure in Paris is mostly a period of romantic frustration. Irwin Shaw…
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Three Brothers (Tre fratelli)
Franceso Rosi's warm, thoughtful tale sees a family gathering observe grievous modern problems -- after so much violence in Italian politics people…