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Cimarron (1960)
Once upon a time, MGM launched a big spectacle Western remake with the top star Glenn Ford and the bright import Maria…
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The Leech Woman
Why do we like horror and monster movies that routinely get labeled as 'bad?' Because many of them have great story ideas…
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The Slasher – ‘Cosh Boy’
He's mean, he's nasty, he carries a razor and he's dating your sister! Cosh Boy was front & center in 1953 debates…
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Passport to Pimlico
Much of Ealing Studios' core appeal begins right here, with T.E.B. Clarke's astute look at the character of pragmatic, energetic Londoners, who…
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Dr. Cyclops
It may be a little creaky, but Dr. Cyclops is a genuine classic of the imagination, from a time long before pulp…
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The Fugitive Kind
Marlon Brando is back in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play Orpheus Descending. The cameraman is Boris Kaufman and the director is…
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Two givens for Los Angeles living in 1969: perpetual driving around listening to the radio, and stereo cartridge needles dropping onto record…
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The Cotton Club Encore
They say you Can't Go Home Again, but Francis Coppola has pulled a real magic trick -- his 1984 gangland musical ended…
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Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Back in the early 1970s I was crazy about Depression-Era Warner Bros. movies, that weren't being shown on TV or anywhere else.…
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Trapped (1949)
Noir Nirvana isn't found amid literary swells and hoity-toity art connoisseurs -- but in the trenches of humble Eagle-Lion Films, where Richard…
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The Anne Bancroft Collection
Remember those DVD collections organized by star, that combined favorite actors' big movies with good titles you might not have seen? Shout…
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Major Dundee (import)
Sam Peckinpah's 'Mangled Masterpiece' gets a new lease on life with this Austrian import, which corrects all the things that bugged me…
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Downton Abbey
Ah yes, we have a winner for the best 'Comfort Food Movie' of them all. When a trailer for this show popped…
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Christmas in July
At least the title SOUNDS Christmas-themed! Preston Sturges' sweet trifle is as simple as a sit-com mix-up, but the charm is in…
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The Story of Temple Drake
The most notorious pre-Code shocker comes to Criterion -- and proves to be a superior drama with a mature outlook on the…
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The Beast with a Million Eyes
Once again CineSavant becomes intrigued by a minor genre opus normally dismissed in a sentence or two; this Roger Corman production may…
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Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
At the end of his career, Fritz Lang returned to Germany and a producer who gave him a big budget to remake…
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut's quirky sci-fi novels didn't always adapt well to film, but George Roy Hill's 1972 effort is a faithful winner. The…
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Until the End of the World
An amazing Blu-ray year is now capped by a genuine favorite, rescued by its filmmaker and set aside for almost twenty years.…
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The Strange Case of Until the End of the World: CineSavant Archive Articles
I wrote the pair of articles here in 1998 after seeing the long ‘Die Trilogie’ version of Until the End of the…
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The Bells of St. Mary’s
One of America's favorite holiday movies plays strangely today, and despite being one of the most popular pictures of its year, really…
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Now, Voyager
This must be an official Bette Davis month... Criterion has two vintage Davis pictures on offer, and TCM is devoted to a…
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Michael Cimino could have done worse for his first directing gig -- a big Clint Eastwood-Jeff Bridges buddy picture with guaranteed major…
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RoboCop
Extra-special extras adorn this stunning reissue of a modern sci-fi action classic. Paul Verhoeven's sledgehammer of graphic-novel brutality and wicked political satire…
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The Bad and the Beautiful
One of Vincente Minnelli's best is this glamorous 'Hollywood Looks At Hollywood' exposé of sin and conniving among the actors, directors and…
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Madigan
Manhattan detective Richard Widmark is up the creek without his .38 special -- a maniac killer has stolen it. He's desperate to…