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Andrei Rublev
Want to get serious about Russian cinema? Andrei Tarkovsky's 15th-century epic portrays the travails of an artist at odds with his world…
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Lisbon
Ray Milland produces, directs and stars in this odd, forgotten travelogue / adventure / romance /crime tale filmed in Portugal's beautiful capital.…
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Black Widow (1954)
Fox touted Black Widow as the first murder mystery in CinemaScope. Ace writer / tyro director Nunnally Johnson tries an 'All About…
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Sisters
Brian De Palma unleashes 101 ferocious Hitchcock references for this great horror opus, all bolstered by Bernard Herrmann's nerve-jangling music score. Plus…
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Hammer's Dracula goes out with a whimper in this final Chris Lee-Peter Cushing vampire opus, which posits the Prince of Darkness as…
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Valley Girl
One of the oldies celebrated by lovers of '80s fare, Martha Coolidge's ode to pampered teens in La La Land has aged…
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Gun Shy (2000)
I had never heard of this comedy-thriller, and the good news is that it's a pleasant surprise, thoroughly enjoyable. The toughest kind…
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The Spiral Staircase
There's a storm outside, the cook has drunk herself to sleep, the other servants are gone, the old lady is an invalid…
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12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam's second big-star 'retrench' movie benefits from his fertile imagination, and his handling of an overly complicated sci-fi script. Did happy…
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Night of the Demon
A top horror title gets the Powerhouse Indicator treatment just in time for Halloween -- it's not a domestic release but it…
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Dracula A.D. 1972
Dracula and Van Helsing seem more than a little confused, fighting the good fight of virtue against evil in a modern setting…
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Shampoo
Beverly Hills 1968 -- Sunset Blvd., The Strip, The Bistro, the haze in the Hollywood Hills -- where a lowly hairdresser-stud is…
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Les Parents Terribles
Jean Cocteau's film work wasn't limited to fairy tales and art-house fantasies; this adaptation of his hit play shows us fine theater…
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A super-classic receives a super 'Olive Signature' Blu-ray release. CineSavant clears up some online rumors complaining that the disc producers didn't do…
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The Swarm
It's time to celebrate the Irwin Allen disaster epics for what they are -- huge, indigestible spectacles that first seem funny and…
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The Official Story
Political terror hits home, as a Buenos Aires teacher and housewife discovers that her family life is not only a lie, it's…
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Trilogy of Terror
The 70s brought forth some well-remembered TV horror movies, that shocked impressionable kids back in the days of Watergate and Sonny &…
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The Last Hurrah
In the last decade of his career, John Ford produced and directed this ode to crony politics, with Spencer Tracy as an…
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Scenes from a Marriage
The marital discord in this show is a different animal than those Italian romps with Loren and Mastroianni -- Ingmar Bergman's miniseries…
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Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series 4
Let the debate about the incompatibility of film art and screen eroticism commence: Joe Sarno is back! His 1964 Sin in the…
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The Naked Prey
An excellent example of a thriller that improves with age, Cornel Wilde's survival tale is a lean 'n' mean exercise in first-person…
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The Bravados
Gregory Peck slips into vengeance mode full-tilt, riding down a quartet of blackhearted knaves: rapist Stephen Boyd, ambusher Albert Salmi, sneaky Lee…
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
One of the most jeered-at, overcooked sequels of all time thoroughly deserves its reputation as a train wreck of a movie. In…
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry's play has been given a masterful film adaptation, with the emotional truth of her words left intact. We're told of…
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Looker
It's always fun to peruse the impressive career of writer-director Michael Crichton, whose brilliant, commercially savvy ideas so often hit the mark.…
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The Cyclops
He's back -- looking meaner and uglier than ever! Bert I. Gordon's early sci-fi effort shapes up as a surprisingly entertaining monster…