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Remember the Night
Mitchell Leisen's great Christmas-time tale has a brilliant screenplay by Preston Sturges and letter-perfect performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, threading…
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Dersu Uzala
What a great way to encounter such an unusual masterpiece -- Akira Kurosawa reenergized his creative career with this ambitious, uncompromised historical…
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The Girl on a Motorcycle
Welcome to 1968, and a burst of creative direction from one of the greatest film artists of the 20th century, Jack Cardiff.…
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It Always Rains on Sunday
All those British crime films once deemed undesirable for the National Image are beginning to get the attention they deserve. This story…
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Pulp Fiction 4K
A 4K Steelbook! Haven't seen this show lately, and discovered that it holds up remarkably well. Mr. QT's sophomore outing made an…
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Twilight
Robert Benton and Paul Newman's show-biz detective tale is one of the best-looking thrillers of 1998. With its star lineup of Susan…
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The Molly Maguires
It's Labor vs. Capital, in basic terms! Sean Connery is the tough, embittered miner looking to strike back against the bosses, and…
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Only once in a generation do we behold a classic such as this! The 'embiggened' adventures of Nancy Archer lack technical sophistication,…
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Testament
To the short list of 'classic' nuclear horror on Blu-ray we can now add the one that hits closest to home. Lynne…
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The Hallelujah Trail
John Sturges' Road Show comedy western has more in common with 1941 than The Magnificent Seven, but Kino has MGM's new remaster…
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Reservoir Dogs 4K
Quentin Tarantino's first feature may not be to all tastes, but it is an admirable feat of commercial filmmaking -- what other…
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El vampiro negro
The Black Vampire! The most impressive Spanish-language noir restoration yet, Román Viñoly Barreto's superior serial murder thriller hails from 1953 Argentina. It…
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Warning Shot
This mid-60s detective story has the right ingredients -- a good mystery and interesting characters. David Jannsen gets to play a 'Bosch'-…
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French Noir Collection
Hungry for those wet Parisian streets, the city lights, and cadavres en lambeaux in the pale moonlight? Enter three highly atmospheric, star-studded…
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Putney Swope
The New York Underground invaded the mainstream with Robert Downey Sr.'s completely irreverent Madison Avenue satire, in which a token black executive…
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Ulzana’s Raid
Robert Aldrich gives the Cavalry Western a rough going-over in this brutal, unforgiving horror-western. Burt Lancaster gets in a fine late-career action…
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Silent Running 4K
Newly remastered in 4K! Bruce Dern's (literally) tree-hugging forest ranger Freeman Lowell commits space piracy to save the trees, dude, and becomes…
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Storm Center
The first movie to directly confront McCarthyism! Or so said the editorials touting this 'Long-Awaited Screen Event' in which 'Bette Davis Hits…
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Going Places
Bertrand Blier's edgy romp about a pair of ne'er-do-well petty-crooks will go too far for many viewers -- they're antisocially chauvinistic in…
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Blue Hawaii 4K
Elvis Presley's handlers found the formula that would keep his stardom solvent through the 1960s in this well-confected, calculatedly vacant star vehicle…
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WALL•E 4K
Pixar's save-the-world eco-epic actually begins with the world destroyed, before a pair of cute robots help put it back together again. Andrew…
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Le Soldatesse
Rarovideo is back, with an excellent Italo war drama that finds humanist values in an appalling situation: a young Italian lieutenant is…
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Universal Noir #1 Collection
Powerhouse Indicator's first foray into the Universal library yields six noir thrillers, all crime-related and all different: the list introduces us to…
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The Diamond Wizard 3-D
Yet another 3-D Blu-ray treat -- the 3-D Film Archive restores a rare English production, an international crime tale in 3-D. Dennis…
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I, the Jury (1953) 4K + 3-D
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer hit the big screen early in the 3-D craze, in a much tamed-down adaptation. The camera legend John…
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Lonelyhearts
Dore Schary's post-MGM personal production is a class act in every respect -- Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan and Myrna Loy are well…