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High Noon
It's the most over-analyzed and over-interpreted western ever. Postwar politics may be quicksand, but it's still about Gary Cooper's Marshall Kane getting…
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Risky Business
This big hit from the yuppie decade launched a career that won't die: with digital de-ageing, Tom Cruise can now throw out…
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Navajo Joe
Burt Reynolds was among the first American actors to 'do a Clint Eastwood' and rush to Rome, but in his case the…
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Marie: A True Story
This excellent true story of political bribery in Tennessee has a genuine heroine at its center. Sissy Spacek plays a governor's aide…
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Bob le flambeur
Take a trip to the '50s roots of French crime cinema, now redubbed 'French noir.' Obsessed with American cars and movies, Jean-Pierre…
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Northwest Passage
Want to follow Spencer Tracy in search of the elusive Northwest Passage? Not in this movie! Taken from American history and treated…
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World War III
Once again an Iranian film yields an experience found nowhere else. Houman Seyedi's allegory of exploiters and the exploited never takes a…
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Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard's pop Sci-fi masterpiece jumps to 4K ... and the splendid 2023 remaster on the 4K disc finally nails Raoul Coutard's…
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The Hell with Heroes
We wanted to cover a Universal product from the late '60s, and this one has stars we like -- Rod Taylor, Claudia…
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Goin’ South
Jack Nicholson's loose, wooly, not-particularly-well-organized western comedy is often quite funny, especially in the early stages. With a half-dozen capable funny men…
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The Lady from Shanghai
Practically disowned by Columbia when new, Orson Welles' baroque noir thriller is now regarded as one of the studio's top achievements, and…
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Ernie Pyle’s The Story of G.I. Joe
General Eisenhower reportedly praised this movie as best representing the real experience of American foot soldiers; director William Wellman's cast gives it…
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The Last Emperor
Cecil B. De Mille and David Lean get the glory for historical epics on a giant scale, but Bernardo Bertolucci's saga of…
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Le samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville's sleekest, most stylish crime meller makes the jump to 4K -- Alain Delon's Jef Costello is the hired gun trying…
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Revenge of the Blood Beast
Raro Video reissues Michael Reeves & Paul Maslansky's semi-comic horror romp, the one that engaged Barbara Steele for one very long day…
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Anselm
Wim Wenders makes 3-D movies like no others ... this investigation of the life and work of the controversial artist Anselm Kiefer…
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Bwana Devil
Some titles get remembered as Firsts: The Great Train Robbery, The Jazz Singer, Becky Sharp, This Is Cinerama, The Robe and this…
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The Chase
This subtly surreal noir thriller from the mystery pen of Cornell Woolrich is so 'dreamlike,' it barely makes sense! Penniless drifter Robert…
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Criterion comes through with the spectacular special edition hinted at by Alex Cox back in 2022... Sam Peckinpah's final western sees the…
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Reptilicus
"I'm Reptilicus!" "No, I'm Reptilicus!" That inspirational scene is not to be found in either version of this monster-on-the-loose epic -- but…
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American Gigolo
Paul Schrader, Richard Gere and the studio way of packaging movies hit the jackpot with this tale of an ultra-glamorous professional ladies'…
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When Worlds Collide
Paramount gives us a stand-alone release of its newest remaster of George Pal's visionary, ambitious and amusingly dated Sci-fi epic followup to…
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XIX
Kino's 19th 'Dark Side of Cinema' mega-series -- now 57 individual films and counting -- presents three more solid noir entertainments from…
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
This chiller would have given Franz Kafka nightmares! The most sophisticated & influential Sci-fi film of the 1950s uses few special effects…
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir's tale of a mysterious disappearance in 1900 is even more disturbing than his The Last Wave: the 'New Australian' movement…
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Act of Violence
Fred Zinnemann's dark thriller gives us Robert Ryan as a gun-toting killer, with Van Heflin's respected family man his intended victim. But…