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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…
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Strangers Kiss
Independent filmmakers attract attention by using a Kubrick semi-classic as a movie-within-a-movie! Blaine Novak's tale of love on a movie set mirrors…
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The Man I Love
Ida Lupino shows 'em how a real movie star takes possession of the screen in Raoul Walsh's excellent romantic drama set among…
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Victims of Sin
Mexican showbiz from the wrong side of the tracks: it's big, it's vulgar, it's overcooked: but it's highly effective cinema with sensational…
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The Soldier’s Tale
Originally made for Public Television, R.O. Blechman's adaptation of Stravinsky's theater piece combines a score of animation techniques within the illustrator's eccentric,…
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Bandits of Orgosolo
This in-the-wilds thriller about Sardinian shepherds that become outlaws is an almost perfect movie experience, and truer to Italian neorealist theory than…
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Ennio
Morricone fans and students of music will discover a real treat in Giuseppe Tornatore's exhaustive, comprehensive epic documentary of All Things Ennio.…
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2001: A Space Odyssey
No, it's not a new disc ... CineSavant updates an older review to take in Warner's 2018 4K edition -- mainly to…
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Blue Velvet
David Lynch's dark vision of vice and cruelty beneath a quiet rural town solidified his rep as The Most Out-There big-studio director.…
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Man’s Castle
Old-school Hollywood romance is back in force. This pre-Code dazzler by Frank Borzage is one of the best, emotionally valid despite its…
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Chinatown
This masterpiece qualifies as a 'period neo-noir' despite being produced before the noir craze found traction. The murder of a city commissioner…
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Obsession
The most accessible of the pictures director Edward Dmytryk made during his brief political exile in England is this tight 'perfect crime'…
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City of Hope
A previously scarce John Sayles films surfaces in a beautiful widescreen edition. Cynicism and frustration pits a town against itself, in a…
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The Nun’s Story
It's the kind of movie we get dragged to see ... which then becomes a respected favorite. Robert Anderson, Fred Zinnemann and…
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Fear and Desire
Stanley Kubrick's early work can tell us a lot about the artist, as might a collection of Da Vinci or Renoir sketch…
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You’re a Big Boy Now
Come back to the middle 1960s, when America's hottest film student Francis Ford Coppola started on his path to directorial glory by…
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Sci-Fi Chillers Collection
Good news for sci-fi fans; Kino's newly remastered trio of monsterrific thrillers looks great. The favorite Paramount semi-classic The Colossus of New…
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Peeping Tom
Michael Powell and Leo Marks encode their tale of a sick serial killer with 1001 wicked observations, insights and unflattering jokes about…
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Friendly Persuasion
Jessamyn West's bright vision of America's agrarian dream has plenty to say about anxious times: a family of Quakers try to maintain…
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The Rain People
Francis Ford Coppola's first personal film through his Zoetrope experiment is an acting tour-de-force for Shirley Knight, a purposely marginal road movie…
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Back from the Dead
When is a horror movie not a horror movie? Does the absence of most horror content make a difference? This Regal Films…
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Dune ’84
Shot for shot, David Lynch's galactic epic is as brilliant as any of his films, with vivid characterizations, strong performances and a…
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Planet of the Vampires
Radiance comes through again, giving us Mario Bava's haunted space opera in multiple versions. The original Italian encoding improves greatly on everything…
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Submarine Command
This little-seen Paramount war picture finishes William Holden's run with lovely Nancy Olson as his co-star; John Farrow's direction gets serious about…
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Once Upon a Time in the West
"Only at the point of dying." Hailed in Europe but ignored here, Sergio Leone's most prestigious western transcends classic status. Its…