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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…
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The Far Country
Did star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann corner the market on upscale 'A' '50s westerns? This beauty sends Stewart, Ruth Roman…
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The 3-D Nudie-Cuties Collection
Oh, have you reached the right page? We know you were looking for the review of Aunt Minerva's Hymns of Faith in…
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Sinister stabbings, women kicked and beaten, perverse hoodlums selling cocaine and murdering street-beat bobbies: what happened to civilized English crime? Cavalcanti's…
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Great Day in the Morning
Jacques Tourneur's 'big sky' western gives us the beauty of Colorado mountains plus stunning color images (originally Technicolor) of his attractive cast:…
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The Man Between
Critics compare this sophisticated spy thriller to Carol Reed's earlier Triumph set in Vienna with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles -- but…
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Eegah
Mean-spirited 'Bad Movie' satirists forget that production values aren't everything, even if the collected works of Barry Mahon and Coleman Francis say…
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Operation Crossbow
'Mission impossible' escapism about high-stakes wartime sabotage looks at an authentic, dramatic episode of WW2 -- the onslaught of futuristic V-Weapons on…
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Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory
Italian horror from the early 1960s covers a wide range of quality, from eerie hauntings to tacky vampire romps. For one of…
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Hammer Volume Four Faces of Fear
Powerhouse Indicator continues its series of exotic attractions from the house of Hammer with four more titles, three of which are front-rank…