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Martin Roumagnac
Something of a missing link in the filmography of Marlene Dietrich, this immediate postwar French production pairs her with one of her…
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Resurrection
Daniel Petrie and Ellen Burstyn's excellent film elevates a genre we normally disdain -- the Ethereal Cereal do-you-believe Spiritual Awakening picture. Call…
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No Man Is an Island
Here's a hard-to-see WW2 real-life drama that holds up rather well. Jeffrey Hunter plays radioman George Tweed, the lone U.S. sailor holdout…
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
We never miss an opportunity to see John Heard perform. A 'difficult' movie that nonetheless made its mark, Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation…
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State of the Union
Frank Capra's big push to reestablish his exalted pre-war reputation saw him applying 'Capracorn' to a Pulitzer-winning Broadway comedy-drama about modern politics.…
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The Prince and the Showgirl
What a difference a digital remaster makes! Marilyn Monroe's self-produced English comedy leaps back to life with a new restoration of Jack…
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Dragonslayer 4K
Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins put everything they had into a medieval sword 'n' sorcery epic, filmed in England and finished in…
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Party Girl ’95
Here's the eager New York independent production that snagged Parker Posey for her first starring role -- as a Manhattan party animal…
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Black Sunday ’77
John Frankenheimer's big-scale terrorism conspiracy tale benefits from the director's no-nonsense attitude to action. Thomas Harris' first novel spins on a 'high…
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Babylon 4K
Is it a train wreck or an unrecognized masterpiece? Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt topline this enormous, enormously profane epic of silent-era…
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Mildred Pierce 4K
'Washed up' at MGM, Joan Crawford bounced back with one of the smartest, best-judged career rethinks in Hollywood history. As James M.…
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The Long Wait 4K
This Mickey Spillane noir tale has its good points: star Anthony Quinn gives a solid 'tough guy' performance, sizing up a quartet…
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Something to Live For
Hollywood's postwar shift to social consciousness addressed familiar issues like bigotry and discrimination. On his way to making his gargantuan, serious epics,…
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Mississippi Mermaid
François Truffaut is back with another Hitchcock-influenced adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich murder thriller, with stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo as…
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Death of a Gunfighter
Richard Widmark reportedly used his clout to amp up this revisionist western, but the result seems forced at best, and hampered by…
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Obsessed
This very traditional chamber murder mystery starring David Farrar and Geraldine Fitzgerald has been beautifully restored by Studiocanal and bears the original…
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The Lady Is My Wife
Wow, a 'new' Sam Peckinpah western! While we await the rumored Blu-ray of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid to surface (or…
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The Mountain
The French Alps in VistaVision and Technicolor really sell this inspirational thriller. Spencer Tracy stars is the utterly ethical mountaineer, and young…
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The Green Room
François Truffaut goes deep and morbid adapting a Henry James story about a man who chooses to 'devote himself to his beloved…
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Sci-fi from the Vault: 4 Films
Mill Creek's latest disc collection gathers three Columbia Sci-fi faves and throws in a Blu-ray debut for a fourth. It's a good…
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The House that Screamed
What makes Franco-era Spanish horror so horrible? The unnecessary cruelty and emphatic nastiness, a combination that's led to more than a few…
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Romeo and Juliet ’68
Franco Zeffirelli apprenticed to Luchino Visconti, stage directed operas and directed several movie hits, the biggest of which was this exuberant, attractive…
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Carrie (1952)
This expensive production was dismissed as a flop, and literary critics scorned it for diluting the famed novel by Theodore Dreiser. But…
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If I Were King
It's a nearly perfect tale of identity swaps and royal intrigues: Ronald Colman's voice is velvet smooth as the poet-rogue François Villon,…
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Marathon Man 4K
William Goldman's international conspiracy thriller provides Dustin Hoffman with an outright 'action man' star vehicle. The public applauded supporting star Laurence Olivier,…
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Dazed and Confused 4K
"Where were you in '76?" The newest entrant in Criterion's 4K disc club is Richard Linklater's rowdy but affectionate ode to high…