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The Long Good Friday
It's still the best gangster film of the post- Godfather era. Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren are a striking couple at the…
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XXI
Kino's 21st noir series entry gives us two winners and a not-bad contender. Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger with Gary Cooper and…
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Three Little Words
All of the Warner Archives' newly-remastered MGM musicals are terrific, and this 1950 musical bio with Fred Astaire is no exception. His…
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Bringing Out the Dead
Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader teamed several times, and this harrowing nightmare about Ambulance EMTs trying to wade through the chaos of…
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Perfect Days
Wim Wenders' tale of one man's attainment of personal harmony is halfway between documentary and drama, with a strong dose of clear-headed…
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Le Doulos
Enjoy one of Jean-Pierre Melville's finest, remastered on 4K and looking good. It's a complicated story of thieves betraying thieves, the wrinkle…
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
One of the most accomplished Czech fantasies comes to Blu-ray -- nostalgic pulp fiction set in 1900 Prague. Yankee detective Nick Carter…
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Bad Company
Fans of westerns will love Robert Benton's takedown of wild west mythmaking: Civil War draft evaders Jeff Bridges and Barry Brown learn…
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We Still Kill the Old Way
It's a paranoid murder thriller without shoot-outs or car chases. The 'we' administer an entirely corrupt system of law and justice that…
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Doubt
Doubt and uncertainty have a life of their own. John Patrick Shanley's film of his powerhouse play studies the cloud of suspicion…
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The Shape of Night
Yet another eye-opener from 1960s Japan -- the story of a young woman's downfall is told with truth and conviction, with an…
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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…