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Airplane!
Most people smile just at the mention of this show ... nothing is more healthy than an old fashioned laugh. Zucker, Zucker…
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Black Test Car + The Black Report
For vintage Japanese classics Arrow is the place to be this summer. Yasuzô Masumura's complicated tale of industrial espionage is an attack…
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Night Visitor
Hookers! Devil worshippers! A naughty teenage voyeur! A deadly knife, a lethal sedan and a chainsaw-wielding psychopath! Nasal Spray! CineSavant breaks with…
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Red Ball Express
Trucks for victory! No deadheads on this run! Bald Tires for Adolf! Budd Boetticher's two-fisted teamsters haul General Patton's supplies through a…
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Toni
Fans of Jean Renoir will rush to see something 'new' from the great director; this very different Renoir picture sees him filming…
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Hiroshima (1953)
Japanese cinema's earliest attempt to depict the full impact of the 1945 atom-bomb attack is one of the best anti-Nuke movies ever...…
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The Sign of the Cross
The message of this ode to early Christian martyrs is overpowered by Cecil B. DeMille's indulgence of his sanctimonious/perverse instincts: although seldom…
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Hollywoodland
Is this a thrilling, Chinatown-like Hollywood mystery, or a semi-docu about the making of the first TV Superman show? Or is it…
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The Sin of Nora Moran
Hoo-haw, as they say... but the hot reputation of this pre-Code slice of censor bait begins and ends with its astonishing original…
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The City Without Jews
A major silent film find: recently rediscovered and restored, this much-sought Austrian satire offers historical insight on antisemitism in 1920s Europe, and…
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Pat and Mike
Still one of Tracy and Hepburn's best, this follow-up to Adam's Rib works on all levels. It rings the feminist rights gong…
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The Complete Films of Agnes Varda
An artist's life is always more than their 'published' works, but that this massive 'Agnés in a box' comes close to being…
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Wake Island
Never heard of Wake Island? Its fall terrified Americans at Christmas of 1941. The war's just begun, we're definitely not winning, and…
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L’innocente
Luchino Visconti's handsome final feature adapts a classic Italian novel about an arrogant aristocrat whose selfish double-standard philosophy causes ruin and misery.…
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Tony Curtis Collection
Good Old Tony Curtis! We could always depend on Tony for a sly, ingratiating smile, charm that ranged from candid-sweet to barracuda…
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Raggedy Man
Here's a story about a different kind of 'lockdown.' This near-perfect Americana drama might be the real pinnacle of Sissy Spacek's wonderful…
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Orgasmo
Severin's extravagant four-film six-disc The Complete Umberto Lenzi / Carroll Baker Giallo Collection is a luxurious trip into sexy, violent Italo thrill territory.…
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
We love Cassandra Peterson, a smart woman who made a go of horror host work in the tough Los Angeles TV market,…
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The Public Eye
Howard Franklin's absorbing tale of the New York underworld is told from the point of view of a night-prowling shutterbug who documents…
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Romance on the High Seas
A bigger and brighter film debut couldn't be imagined ... Doris Day became America's sweetheart in Michael Curtiz's peppy production, graced with…
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
A near-spotless restoration on the 104 year-old adaptation of the Jules Verne classic finally presents it in a form where we can…
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America as Seen by a Frenchman
This marvelous proto-documentary is a cultural travelogue, before such films became a conduit to express social outrage or moral condemnation. To the…
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Pride and Prejudice (1940)
MGM in 1940 was just the movie factory to turn out a smart, compact version of the Jane Austen novel, with Greer…
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The War of the Worlds
"It neutralizes mesons somehow. They're the atomic glue holding matter together!" For most of the 1950s George Pal's Martian invasion tale reigned…
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
What's the best Ecological Thriller of all time? Finally available in a good Region A disc is Val Guest and Wolf Mankowitz's…
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Britannia Hospital
Lindsay Anderson's third 'Mick Travis' movie is a crazy comedy eager to overstep lines of cinematic decorum. Britain in 1982 is a…