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It Happened Here
Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo were teenagers when filming began on this superlative wartime thriller. Taking over eight years to complete, it…
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Heaven Can Wait
This may be the year for new cinephile converts to the cult of appreciation for the great Ernst Lubitsch. One of his…
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Cradle Will Rock
Writer-director Tim Robbins goes all out to recreate a politically potent chapter of Broadway legend, the true story of the rebel WPA…
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Home from the Hill
He-bull womanizer Robert Mitchum spars with wife Eleanor Parker for the future of their son George Hamilton in Vincente Minnelli's attractive, sprawling…
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Need a laugh? Paul Newman shoots people, hangs others and runs a judiciary speed trap for unwary outlaw vagrants. John Huston's picture…
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Footsteps in the Fog
Could this be retitled "Dial 'F' for Fog?" Jean Simmon's greedy maid blackmails her employer Stewart Granger with proof that he murdered…
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Now it can be told! Or maybe, now it can't be told? William Bradford Huie's novel of creeping American ambition in Honolulu…
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The Complete Hal Roach Thelma Todd Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection
Vintage '30s comedy returns, with a beautiful blonde, a sassy brunette and elaborate location filming in a bygone Los Angeles. Hal Roach…
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A Clever, Resourceful Special Effect Surprise
Back in the 1970s I picked up from Larry Edmunds’ Bookstore a copy of a one-shot special effects fan magazine that I…
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The Stranglers of Bombay
"Kali bids us to Kill! KILL!" A full review of Indicator's Hammer Volume 3 Blood and Terror collection will follow, but CineSavant…
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Cinderella Liberty
A real peach of a '70s New Hollywood picture, Mark Rydell and Darryl Ponicsan's story of a sailor on extended leave is…
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The Day After
A hundred million viewers tuned in to ABC back in '83 to find out if the world would end with a bang…
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Supergirl (1984)
We're told that the first live- action feature film super-heroine was the marvelous Helen Slater, whose fine presence redeems this last film…
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Meet Me at the Astor
CineSavant poaches on Greenbriar Picture Shows territory with a quick slideshow of photos from New Yawk, New Yawk, where once upon a…
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Strange Victory
'This Picture Kills Fascists' might be a motto for this bombshell essay documentary. Leo Hurwitz's film wasn't made welcome in 1948 and…
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I Walk Alone
One of a number of Paramount noirs seemingly forever MIA on disc, Hal Wallis' show reunites Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott with…
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Ready Player One
Lifelong gaming fan Steven Spielberg goes all-in for motion capture, with much different results than The Adventures of Tintin. It's an ode…
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Irma La Douce
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's lavish movie boils down to a dirty party joke, but they struck gold just the same. Audiences…
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Billy Budd
Forget the 'famous book' doldrums -- this exciting seagoing drama will take your head off. Criminally unseen and unheralded, Allied Artists' classic…
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Village of the Damned (1960)
Inquiring minds want to know -- why you're thinking about a BRICK WALL. John Wyndham's diabolically clever alien invasion fantasy is taken…
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sex, lies, and videotape
Is this show still as daring as it once seemed? How does it fare in this year of #MeToo? Where are the…
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A Matter of Life and Death
The wonder movie of 1946 sees the Archers infusing the 'Film Blanc' fantasy with amazing images and powerful emotions. Imagination and resourcefulness…
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Under Capricorn
What could go wrong? Alfred Hitchcock directs Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten in a mysterious tale of marital intrigues and social bigotry…
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!
Inflato-faced Jô Shishido is at it again, here in a typically precocious, spoofy crime adventure by Japan's playful Seijun Suzuki. If the…
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Hitler’s Hollywood
What, another docu about Nazis? Rüdiger Suchsland's show tells the entire story -- with many rare clips and interesting actor and filmmaker…
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Beirut
We're still waiting for the role that will prove that Jon Hamm has a future after Mad Men. This middling hostage negotiation…