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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,…
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All Through the Night
We've rediscovered a new favorite from the Warner corral, a bright action comedy that raised spirits when America needed it most, fewer…
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The Bubble
The Bubble is back, new but somewhat the same: the 3-D Archive restores an original cut, extending the running time by 21…
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Threads
Back in 1984, England was terrorized by this special TV event. The apocalypse begins with trouble in Iraq. Maybe the last thing…
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Flight
Here's a picture from a decade ago that holds up well. It's another accomplished performance from Denzel Washington, who showed nary a…
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Macao
Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell light up the Portuguese colony, but on the studio backlot: mogul Howard Hughes hired the great Josef…
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The Elephant Man
Are you ready to see what 4K resolution and contrast do to high-quality B&W cinematography? David Lynch's most humane and sympathetic film…
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Mars Attacks!
One of Tim Burton's most creative pictures abandons his morbid-lite focus to find big fun in comic Sci-fi spectacle, a 'Mad, Mad,…
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Body Snatchers
The film adaptations of Jack Finney's book The Body Snatchers score rather well -- almost all of them are very good. For…
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Random Harvest
James Hilton's mystery romance takes audiences by surprise: IT'S GOOD. It might begin as a stack of cliché elements, but the development…
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World Noir Volume 5
So you think life is tough where you are? ... these three Italian crime tales teach a lesson beyond noir, that hope…
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Raoul Walsh's four-masted seagoing epic is an ambitious Technicolor production, a Hollywood film made in Europe. Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo bring…