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Taza, Son of Cochise 3-D
Great 3-D thrills -- Hollywood was working to perfect 3-D movies just as the craze died out. An impeccable Blu-ray 3-D restoration,…
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Talk about a worthy title for restoration -- somebody up there likes us. Digital tools and film preservation expertise have advanced far…
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Brighton Rock
Graham Greene's tense crime tale is as important as his classic The Third Man but nowhere near as well known. Down Brighton…
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Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales
Welcome to the exciting, hesitant, guilt-laden and provocative world of Eric Rohmer, and his varied voyages of slightly intimidated romantic discovery. There…
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The Golem: how he came into the world
A top movie monster is back from filmic perdition, restored to his full might and power. Rabbi Lowe's answer to the persecution…
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John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958
For producer-director John Ford Columbia Studios was apparently a calm port in a hostile movie climate. Away from the bankability guaranteed by…
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
When does a silent classic really become a classic? When we can see a reconstituted full original version, which in this case…
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The Great Escape
Images from this picture were burned into our Boomer childhood brains ... we actually sat still for almost three hours to watch…
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The Cremator
Horror films aren't only about vampires and goblins -- Czech director Juraj Herz's mind-chilling study of a Fascist opportunist communicates truths about…
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Not all Tennessee Williams film adaptations are successful, but Richard Brooks' blend of romance, show biz venality and political thuggery is just…
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Europa Europa
Director Agnieszka Holland pulls off a difficult task -- her true-life Holocaust tale neither trivializes the horror nor glamorizes individualized victims at…
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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Exploitation films have their mavericks, their patron saints and their bad boys: this well-researched and lovingly assembled shock-bio introduces us to a…
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Rachel and the Stranger
Here's a pleasant surprise: one of RKO's most popular releases of 1948 has suddenly emerged in an uncut version that's a full…
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Billy Liar
Do you ever lapse into daydream fantasies to escape from everyday life? Tom Courtenay and John Schlesinger changed their destinies and that…
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Outcast of the Islands
Lust-filled treachery in the steaming tropics! He dared to love a cannibal empress! Taglines like that suggest that it wasn't easy to…
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The Sound Barrier
Why is David Lean's stirring ode to British aviation so historically and technically bogus? Because at heart it's a science fiction film!…
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Timothy Spall stars in a fascinating, surprisingly non-morbid look into the life of Albert Pierrepoint. England's reluctant celebrity hangman dispatched hundreds of…
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Night Passage
James Stewart's final western of the 1950s is a high-gloss family show with more than its share of spirited desperados and adventuresome…
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Our Hospitality
Buster Keaton's first full feature is a real accomplishment, a little masterpiece that deftly balances comedy and drama. Buster's star appeal is…
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville's most accomplished, most personal movie gets a new reissue. Ignored in 1969 and released in the United States only 37…
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Terminal Station & Indiscretion of an American Wife
Don't do it Vittorio! The Italian master's last neorealist project was done 'in collaboration' with American producer David O. Selznick, who proceeded…
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Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics
Can a war movie be reassuring in a time of crisis? Each of the films in this excellent collection stress people working…
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Action of the Tiger
Van Johnson steps into adventure-guy shoes more suitable for Humphrey Bogart in this European-shot thriller. Daring Martine Carol provides the sex appeal…
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The Intrigue
Look out, it's an X-Ray Death Ray! We rushed this review out, and it's only 104 years late. One of the feature…
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Abbott and Costello Go to The Black Lagoon
A CineSavant Article A mention in a book by Tom Weaver of an odd shared visual in two Universal-International movies of the…
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The Day of the Dolphin
They swim, they play, and they talk. They love George C. Scott and call him 'pa.' Mike Nichols' paranoid sci-fi classic combines…