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Girlfriends
Criterion lets out the stops to celebrate a filmmaker long due for some victory laps -- Claudia Weill's endearing drama takes on…
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Danger: Diabolik
Double your Diabolik and double your pleasure! ... this Australian import chases a domestic disc onto the market after only a few…
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
Talk about the Lost Arts -- Animation of various kinds, even stop-motion, is now a major part of filmmaking entertainment. But back…
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Apache
In 2001 I wrote, 'Someday I'll get to see a good copy of Robert Aldrich's great movie Apache.' Kino's excellent new Blu-ray…
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The Shop Around the Corner
CineSavant's hands-down favorite holiday film, this Ernst Lubitsch classic radiates human kindness in all directions. Nobody is perfect: misunderstandings benign and profound…
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The Curse of Frankenstein
Hammer's first color Gothic horror show recovers its charnel house luster in the WAC's ambitious 'surprise' restoration. The severed heads and Peter…
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Ladybug Ladybug
Several atom-fear exposés bravely 'told the truth' about the madness of the nuclear standoff. They didn't get more liberal-precious than this uncompromising,…
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Major Dundee (Australian Import)
The new [Imprint] label turns its attention to the Sam Peckinpah favorite, the almost-classic that suffered a number of setbacks -- a…
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The Day of the Locust
John Schlesinger's adaptation of Nathanael West's novel is one of the best 'Hollywood on Hollywood' pictures ever, even if it soaks everything…
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King Kong (1976)
Dino De Laurentiis took a lot of flack for his underwhelming remake of the incomparable 1933 horror classic, which he promoted into…
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The Pirate
Now for a real treat for musical fans, a core MGM dazzler with top stars, fully restored and looking incredibly good. Vincente…
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Silent Running
Bruce Dern is on a life-saving mission! After killing John Wayne in The Cowboys but before trying to massacre the Super Bowl…
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The Gunfighter
When Hollywood from time to time reinvented the western the results were sometimes sensationally good, as attested to by this superior neglected…
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Ulysses (1954)
No, it's not the story of the 18th President of the United States. Kirk Douglas must have been a big hit in…
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The Mortal Storm
It's pretty scary to think that as late as 1940 both Washington and the American public were sharply divided over Nazi Germany.…
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Mad Max (1979)
The true breakdown of society appears to have begun in Australia around 1979, when George Miller made this berserk extrapolation of every…
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Dragnet (1954)
Join Joe Friday and Frank Smith as they make a case against the rotten gangland crooks that moiderized Dub Taylor with a…
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Columbia Noir #1
Region B Blu-ray-capable noir fans have a formidable six-pack of noir crime pictures on tap: a WW2 espionage thriller, two caper pix…
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Daughters of Darkness
Finally, a horror shocker that needs to make no excuses! Harry Kümel's interpretation of the Elizabeth Báthory legend excels in all departments…
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Dementia
This bizarre, creepy and maudit masterpiece of silent expressionist horror is an independent 1950s production that never had a chance commercially. Butchered…
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Shock Treatment
French filmmaker Alain Jessua comes up with a commercial thriller with a science-fiction, medical horror twist. Alain Delon and Annie Girardot don't…
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Lucía
The Cuban masterpiece has been restored, and is now viewable on the Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project 3 boxed set. Humberto Solás'…
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I, Monster
It's Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing together in a horror picture, a formula no shock feature fan can resist. Most of us…
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The Hit
If you like Euro-crime and haven't seen this one you're in for a real treat. English killers are on the road in…
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Joe Kidd
Clint Eastwood proves again that he Owns the western genre with this odd tale of land reform insurrection and establishment blowback, in…
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The Opposite Sex
This CinemaScope musical remake of 1939's The Women is highly watchable, especially in this flawless digital remaster. The actresses that bare their…