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In what some consider the best classic crime film to come from France, writer-director Claude Sautet and writer José Giovanni give star…
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The Man Inside
Powerhouse Indicator dips into the Columbia library for a Warwick Films production from Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen. It's an international…
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Mogambo
John Ford went to Africa and brought home a fine remake of a 1930s pre-Code hit, with its original star Clark Gable.…
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The Day and the Hour
René Clément all but invented the resistance movie in France and returned to the topic several times. This story of an American…
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The Second Woman
Upscale country-club noir: James V. Kern's well-directed psychological drama has become semi-obscure for a number of reasons but has been resurrected in…
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Excalibur
Not every John Boorman film landed on target, but this fantastic take on the Arthur legend is a big winner. Beginning the…
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Stranger on the Third Floor
The stylized visuals in this RKO mini-masterpiece are more extreme than any of the German expressionist classics said to have influenced it.…
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Ben-Hur
Warners' new 4K remaster of William Wyler's towering Road Show blockbuster is a feast for the eyes and ears; rich encoding will…
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Dillinger
John Milius's all-star gangland gundown epic is great fun for fans of gun action and the America's number one Public Enemy Number…
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Tarzan and His Mate
It's outrageously violent and eye-openingly explicit -- the second Johnny Weissmuller / Maureen O'Sullivan jungle epic is wall to wall animal attacks,…
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Network
Easily the most prescient picture of the 1970s, Paddy Chayefsky's warning of broadcast horrors to come couldn't be more relevant to today's…
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Westworld
Michael Crichton proved himself smarter than the Hollywood system with this neatly conceived, modestly produced moneymaker. Everyone remembers Yul Brynner's psycho robot…
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Lubitsch Musicals
These pre-Code comedies of manners were America's talking-picture introduction to 'the Lubitsch touch.' They're spirited bedroom farces, even though the innuendo and…
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Red Dust
Understanding pre-Code movies gets easy after seeing MGM's sultry romance set in an exotic, sweaty rubber plantation. The big draw is cock…
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3:10 to Yuma
Stunning in HD, this A+ western is a total knockout in crisp 4K. Glenn Ford and Van Heflin's performances as a ruthless…
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Krakatit
A thinking man's nuclear apocalypse movie -- from 1948? Science fiction fans will find Otakar Vávra's highly original response to the…
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Dante’s Peak
It's fundamentally a dum-dum '90s disaster picture, an action-jeopardy roller coaster ride tailored to compete with the Roland Emmerichs and the Michael…
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The Narrow Margin
Quite a few films noir approach perfection: this almost-perfect RKO production was abused by Howard Hughes, only to bounce back as one…
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Barry Lyndon
It's an epic seen through the eye of an artist. We know the past of Europe through great paintings, but Stanley Kubrick…
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Libido
Italo pioneer in Gothic horror Ernesto Gastaldi stepped up to directing with this not-bad murder thriller for the Euro exploitation market circa…
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The Dead
John Huston's final work is a personal production filmed under ideal conditions, with an ideal Irish cast. Screenwriter Tony Huston adjusts the…
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Tank Girl
Is it a filmic disaster or just your average post-punk Riot grrrl Sci-fi epic that got lost in the margins? Lori Petty…
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The Godless Girl
'Kill the Bible!' -- according to Cecil B. DeMille, that's the agenda of Godless atheists destroying America's youth. His beautifully directed yet…
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Punishment Park
As long as we're feeling restless ... we return to 1971, and a Peter Watkins political fantasy that arrived looking for trouble.…
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Yi Yi
Edward Yang's sentimental family masterpiece is back, now in 4K Ultra HD. It's New Taiwan Cinema at its best, and an ideal…
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The Snow Creature
It's a lowly Z-grade independent monster show of the 1950s, made by Billy Wilder's talent-challenged older brother. We can't get enough of…