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The Boy with Green Hair
Joseph Losey's first feature is an anomaly -- a million-dollar Technicolor semi-fantasy about tolerance, anti-conformism and pacifist activism, made just as Hollywood…
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
A stunning movie that conveys the pure spirit of a vintage fairy tale, Aleksandr Ptushko's story of royal intrigue is charming to…
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Joy House
Gangsters, murder, sex and intrigue on the French Riviera! René Clément's overheated thriller touches all the bases, dropping Alain Delon's fugitive playboy…
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Wings of Desire 4K
Ethereal creatures walk among us! Wim Wenders' contemplative utopia proposes other-dimensional Angels that comfort and watch over the insecure and fearful. Angel…
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Camille
With a fine script, decent co-stars and sensitive direction, this fancy-dress production of the sad story of The Lady of the Camélias…
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The Big Bus
It hasn't much of a reputation, but James Frawley's kooky Disaster Movie spoof may fill the need for silly comedy -- it…
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Targets
Peter Bogdanovich’s intriguing suspense thriller is a near ‘perfect mousetrap’ of a movie that neatly sidesteps accusations of topical exploitation. Polly Platt…
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Clash by Night
Fritz Lang's wavering American career hit a high note in this adaptation of a Clifford Odets play with a four-star cast: Barbara…
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Essential Film Noir: Collection 4
Viavision Imprint’s 4th Noir collection is here, with two core examples of the classic style, one solid gangster film, an adventure-intrigue tale…
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The Big Trail 70mm
CineSavant takes a break to catch up with a ‘Wonder Movie of the Ages’ -- from 93 years ago. Raoul Walsh led…
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Another CineSavant Revival Screening Review, or in other words, it's not yet officially available for English-language viewers. This French The Hunchback of…
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Deep Impact 4K
🎶 "Have you heard . . . about the stars? . . . Ju-pi-ter could collide with Mars . . ." 🎶…
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Silent Avant-Garde
CineSavant dips into film school heaven with Bruce Posner's new collection of experimental art pix spanning a hundred years of cinematic impishness.…
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Border Incident
The first MGM film from the noir team of Anthony Mann / John Alton is a crime exposé of the migrant farmworker…
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12 Angry Men 4K
The Sidney Lumet classic graduates to the 4K bracket, with a new transfer. Pictures like this taught a generation of American kids…
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Backtrack
Dennis Hopper's self-indulgent romantic hit man thriller is too interested in modern art and cinematic detours to give its own storyline a…
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The Assassination Bureau
Pitched somewhere between spy thrills, camp satire and art nouveau nostalgia, Basil Dearden's assassination adventure didn't launch a comic book fantasy phase,…
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Danza Macabra Vol 1 The Italian Gothic Collection
Severin's latest deluxe collector's box gathers a quartet of 'Gothic holdovers,' Italo productions that persist with spooky castles, strange noblemen and aggressively…
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They Came To Cordura
We finally caught up with this bold yet misconceived Robert Rossen drama, a desert trek in which Army major Gary Cooper must…
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The Shiver of the Vampires
A Jean Rollin film scores a first 4K disc release before Bava, Franju or Fisher; we review the Blu-ray edition. Once again…
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Hell is for Heroes
A gritty combat drama with Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Harry Guardino? Why wasn't this on Blu ten years ago? Don Siegel…
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The Seventh Seal 4K
This Ingmar Bergman masterpiece still works, and its profundity is only part of the bargain. Max von Sydow is the returning knight…
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The Assassin of the Tsar
Get set for another intriguing Russian import from Deaf Crocodile Films. Karen Shakhnazarov's tale interweaves history with our essential human identity: if…
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Star Trek The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection 4K
The four The Next Generation feature films under the Rick Berman flag maintain the character fun of the TV series while working…
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Counsellor at Law
William Wyler's breakthrough movie gives John Barrymore one of his better sound-era dramatic roles, in a strong, incisive pre-Code adapted from Elmer…
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Asphalt
One of the last of the classic Weimar silents, Joe May's melodrama is only partly expressionist; Günther Rittau's terrific camerawork tells a…