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Losing Ground
Kathleen Collins' name made a big cultural rebound with a single review in The New Yorker -- of an independent movie she…
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Spies (Spione)
Guns! Bombs! Assassinations! Blackmail! Fritz Lang invents the escapist super-spy thriller! To seize a set of political documents the evil Haghi dispatches…
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Michael Collins
On the centennial of the Easter Uprising and just a few days past St. Patrick's Day, WHV present's Neil Jordan's biopic epic…
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Paris Belongs to Us
Director Jacques Rivette just passed away back in January. There's more interest lately in his 12-hour opus Out 1, but if you'll…
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Her Majesty, Love
It's the final Hollywood film by the legendary Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller, and it's also a terrific talkie feature debut for W.C.…
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I Knew Her Well (Io la conoscevo bene)
She's beautiful, desired and enjoys a social mobility in the improving Italian economy... but she's also a pawn of cruel materialist values.…
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The Trip — Psych-Out
Roger Corman took an artistic turn near the end of his directing days to flex his creative muscles. After the finish of…
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Spring Takes Time
Get yer terrific long-suppressed film history right here, folks -- this is what it takes to get your movie banned in East…
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The Strangler
Lock your doors! Hulking menace Victor Buono gets the full-on psycho treatment, based (very) roughly on early reports of The Boston Strangler.…
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The Big Heat
An Encore Edition brings back Fritz Lang's searing police corruption tale, with the great performances of Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee…
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When Eight Bells Toll
This forgotten Alistair MacLean action thriller packs a rare starring role for the young Anthony Hopkins -- he's really good as secret…
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Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Dunwich Horror
Look out! Here come two A.I.P. horror pix from the soggy end of the Poe cycle: the first features Jason Robards, an…
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Bad Boy
This proto- juvenile delinquent epic launched celebrated WW2 warrior Audie Murphy on the road to Hollywood fame, fortune and more troubled times. Audie commits…
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The Decline of Western Civilization, + Part II The Metal Years
The formidable Penelope Spheeris penetrates L.A.'s punk and glam rock scenes, connecting with surly malcontents that would greet a normal docu with flipped fingers…
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Contagion
Savant goes back five years to praise Steven Soderbergh's superb pandemic thriller, the one that warns us to never, ever shake hands…
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Donovan’s Brain
Blinded by science! And no, it's not a sequel to Donovan's Reef. Lew Ayres yanks the living brain out of a dying…
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The Hawaiians
The sequel to the epic Julie Andrews road show picture wasn't a hit, but it tells a good story of its own.…
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Revolt of the Slaves
Let's give a cheer for the lowly sword 'n' sandal epic. This persecution and torture spectacle also takes in the martyrdom of…
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The Vincent Price Collection III
Shout Factory opens the crypt once more, for the last remaining UA and AIP fright movies starring our favorite gentleman of horror.…
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Cowboy
Delmer Daves' easygoing cattle drive western can't make an action hero out of Jack Lemmon, but with fine work from co-star Glenn…
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The Graduate
What can you say to such success? Mike Nichols and Buck Henry's sex satire defined 'the generation gap' for the sixties. Dustin…
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Key Largo
Bogie and Bacall are back, but with Edward G. Robinson's oily gangster breathing down their necks -- "Nyah!" Excellent direction (John Huston)…
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Childhood’s End
After 63 years somebody has taken a crack at Arthur C. Clarke's monumental sci-fi novel. This interpretation throws the emphasis way out…
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The Black Sleep
It's an All Star monster rally -- Lon Chaney Jr.! John Carradine! Bela Lugosi! Basil Rathbone! Tor Johnson!…
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5 Dolls for an August Moon
A "lesser" Mario Bava is still a fountain of great filmmaking; and this annihilating melodrama sees a score of greedy folk wiped…
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Oh! What a Lovely War
A pure-gold Savant favorite, Sir Richard Attenborough's first feature as director is a stylized pacifist epic of the insane tragedy of WW1,…