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The Complete Kubrick
The 'archive' collection presented in Criterion's 'complete' set is a full resource, in 4K and Blu-ray, of a fairly astounding group of…
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
Wholesome, square, family oriented ... it all works when the star is Doris Day. Given a decent vehicle, she never fails; her…
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Ryan’s Daughter
Studios big and small this Fall are putting out superb 4K discs of some of our favorites. Filmed in 70mm and scanned…
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Marked Woman
Warner Brothers wanted to keep Bette Davis, even after she sued them. The Production Code made this true-life gangland tale disguise its…
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The First Films of Samuel Fuller
There's nobody like Samuel Fuller, a bolt of cinematic energy who kicked Hollywood filmmaking in exciting directions. His first three directed features…
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Duplicity — 4K
This one still impresses: the subject is industrial espionage, being played for keeps by two ex-security professionals. Tony Gilroy writes and directs…
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Skyscraper Souls
Pre-code delirium hits a sordid low (high?) in Edgar Selwyn's saga of financial conflict and sexual predation in a futuristic super-skyscraper run…
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Dear Heart
A square romance that needs rediscovery: Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page are the most endearing couple of the 1960s -- ordinary decent…
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Operation Kid Brother
At the ragged end of the SuperSpy craze came this ingenious Italo 007 wannabe, so desperate for a James Bond connection that…
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The First Deadly Sin
Frank Sinatra's final starring performance in a feature is an interesting, low-key tale of a retirement-age detective hunting a serial killer while…
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The Lost Patrol
No women here, just a gritty, doom-laden ordeal in the desert. John Ford took Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff to Yuma, Arizona…
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Coup de torchon
French director Bertrand Tavernier relocates Texan Jim Thompson's acid-pulp thriller "Pop. 1280" to French colonial Africa just before WW2. Philippe Noiret embodies…
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Sergeant Rutledge
We never pass up a John Ford western, even if this story of a military trial is not one of the best.…
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The Wings of Eagles
John Ford indulges his reverence for the U.S. Navy in this semi-comic biography of a buddy who was a Naval aviation pioneer…
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Le Joli Mai
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme follow the 'Direct Cinema' ethos in their inspired 2.5 hour portrait of Paris during a specific month…
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Machine-Gun Kelly
This German import disc gives us an excellent-quality HD copy of Roger Corman's first gangster picture. In it Corman gave Charles Bronson…
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French Dressing
Wow! Maybe you're a Ken Russell fan, primed and ready to see his notorious The Devils? Um, here's a slight substitution. The…
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The Human Comedy
It's ground zero for MGM 'tradition of quality' wholesomeness -- and a great picture about wartime emotions, even if the sentiment meter…
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Star Trek
The mighty Star Trek franchise is still a big deal in fan circles, which will make this 60th Anniversary disc set a…
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The Hot Spot
Dennis Hopper's Texas neo-noir is a sultry sizzler, long on atmosphere and rather poky in the pace department. Ladies' man Don Johnson…
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Troy
They say You Can't Go Homer again, but it's no problem making a slam-bang fantasy Iliad tuned to the star chemistry of…
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Is it surreal, or psychedelic? The source novel dates from 1813. This mind-blowing exercise in narrative puzzle-making is a classic with unique…
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Out of the Past
At the peak of the style called film noir are a few classics that approach perfection, and Jacques Tourneur's supremely poetic film…
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Hell’s Highway
Two decades later, this daring documentary is still the only authoritative reportage on a near-taboo subject: the gross and gory graphic auto…
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Spike of Bensonhurst
Paul Morrissey wrote and directed this sprawling, comic/serious neighborhood saga that scrambles ethnic identities, lopsided honor codes and the twisted 'normality' of…
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Forbidden Planet
Robby the Robot is back, this time in 4K UHD. Arrow Video's 4K restoration brings back the full early width of CinemaScope,…