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After Dark, My Sweet
The legendary Jim Thompson strikes again: director James Foley's spin on this intense, character-driven crime piece may be the movies' truest expression…
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La Bamba
Out of the legendary Rock 'n' Roll 'fifties comes another story that ends on The Day the Music Died. Luis Valdez's account…
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Westward the Women
Perhaps the strong women characters got this William Wellman movie chosen for Blu-ray, but it indeed ranks up there with the best…
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Walkabout 4K
A filmmaker with a genuine vision: Nicolas Roeg's first solo directing effort is a masterpiece of images and montage, excellent storytelling with…
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The Broadway Melody
A happy cult of disc collectors aches for titles from the dawn of sound; the Warner Archive gifts them with this much-improved…
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Cocaine Bear 4K
The two-word title for this thriller demonstrates real Truth in Advertising -- it's all about the ba-a-d bear, and everyone else is…
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The Train 4K
No CGI allowed! Adventure film fans dote on Real Action happening with real stuntmen, and John Frankenheimer's Resistance epic has more physical…
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Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy
Croatian animation wizard Dušan Vukotić co-wrote and directed this Sci-fi comedy that gently elbows the genre. It unspools like a children's film…
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The Night of the Hunter 4K
Strikingly original & endlessly creative, Charles Laughton's solo directorial effort continues to stun audiences with the expressive power of pure cinema. It's…
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$10,000 Blood Money
Spaghetti westerns are are still popular, especially with high-quality releases like this available. This 1967 pseudo-Django oater is from the boxed set…
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One False Move 4K
Tagging Carl Franklin's superb crime thriller as a neo-noir isn't enough; it's practically perfect despite being made at a direct-to-video production level.…
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3 Days of the Condor 4K
Ruthless spy thrills, big-star glitz plus pretensions of political importance: Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway find career-sustaining momentum in this slick, top-talent…
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The Trollenberg Terror (Import)
The old TV Guide blurb nailed it: "Hidden in a radioactive cloud, a creature from outer space awaits its next victim." CineSavant…
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Wichita
"Anything Goes in Wichita!" In the second half of his starring career Joel McCrea turned to westerns, favoring 'kinder and gentler' scripts…
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Borsalino
Jacques Deray's Yankee-style Buddy picture was a smash in France, with its stellar pairing of Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The expensive…
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The Long Voyage Home
This 2016 restoration helps Eugene O'Neill's seagoing story retake its place as one of John Ford's most accomplished pictures. John Wayne stars…
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Blonde Ice
All hail the lowly output of Hollywood's Poverty Row, where mediocrity ruled and good work was rarely rewarded. This potboiler about an…
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Cimarron (1931)
"Terrific as all Creation!" Wesley Ruggles's film adaptation of Edna Ferber's epic novel won the Oscar for Best Picture, helping to establish…
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To Live and Die in L.A. 4K
A William Friedkin fan favorite reaches 4K -- the reputation of this thriller has risen over the years, along with the career…
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Is Paris Burning?
They said 'We'll always have Paris,' but for three weeks in 1944 the survival of the City of Light was in grave…
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Rio Bravo 4K
Everyone's favorite gun-down & sing-along John Wayne western is also Howard Hawks' cagy comeback in an industry that had left him behind.…
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Force of Evil
Abraham Polonsky's ode to corruption in the American success story is one of film noir's most artistic achievements as well as John…
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The Ranown Westerns 4K
Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher. "Pure western heaven" is the catchphrase for Budd Boetticher's perfectly-scaled ruminations on ethics and actions…
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The Anderson Tapes
Sidney Lumet directs his first on-location New York crime picture, giving the escapist heist thriller a taste of paranoid cinema to come.…
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Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Those joyous School Days of intimidation, threats, and Murder! The helpful extras on this new Blu release explain how this tale of…
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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams 4K
As his career wound down Akira Kurosawa found new champions among Hollywood's young 'film student' generation, several of whom helped him secure…