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La belle noiseuse
The late Jacques Rivette knocks us silly with a breathtaking meditation on what it means to be an artist, and what art…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Model Shop
Columbia sets Jacques Demy loose on the streets of Los Angeles in the pivotal year of 1968. Although it puts a coda…
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This is Cinerama & Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
The Cinerama wonder movies were all but extinct fifteen years ago, un-preserved, un-projectable in their original 3-panel splendor, and largely forgotten. Countless…
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Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film
Plenty of films considered politically beyond the pale have been locked up, for reasons good and bad. A German filmmaker born decades…
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The Psychopath
Robert Bloch and Milton Subotsky may have helped to codify the Giallo in this murder thriller but the results are not up…
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Moonrise
Guilt, gloom, weird nightmares of death and persecution -- and romance? The wondrous Gail Russell brings a spark of life into Frank…
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Blue Denim
Let's go back to 1959, when just implying that two teenagers might have first-hand knowledge of sex is socially unacceptable dynamite. This…
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The Post
Steven Spielberg's excellent Pentagon Papers exposé thriller comes straight from the facts. If the project wasn't begun in 2014 we'd think it…
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Schlock
John Landis made his first dent in Hollywood with this hilarious parody of Z-grade monster movies, and it was big enough to…
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Ruby Gentry
Prepare to let your jaw drop: Jennifer Jones and Charlton Heston's sleazy bucolic 'romance' comes off as two-way sex harassment, with suggestive…
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No Down Payment
The blacklist strikes back as both writer Ben Maddow and director Martin Ritt examine the booming '50s phenomenon of The Suburbs. No…
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Down 3 Dark Streets
"It's under the Big 'W'!" A smart cop show goes all 'Dragnet' on a trio of criminal cases in the good old…
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Little Murders
The blackest of black comedies confronts us with an urban worst case scenario -- Jules Feiffer's 'social horror' movie is like a…
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Hope and Glory
Where Were You in '42? If you were little Johnnie Boorman in 1940, you might have been squatting in a dank bomb…
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Blaze
It's hard to know much exaggeration is used in movies about crazy Suth'un politics, when some of the serious movies resemble Julius…
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Roger Corman's ferocious gangster epic (more squibs!) bounces back in a UK Region B edition, noisier and bloodier than ever. Jason Robards,…
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The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola's first feature film is a head-swirling poetic essay about adolescent angst and terminal self-destruction in suburbia, where some families are…
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Bombshell, The Hedy Lamarr Story
The pretty faces that give Hollywood its glamour eventually fade, but Alexandra Hall's documentary reveals a remarkable woman who parlayed her beauty…
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The Vampire (1957)
CineSavant reaches back one year to pick up a notable low-key horror from the team of Levy-Gardner-Laven and good old United Artists.…
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Along Came Jones
Big star Gary Cooper kids his screen image as an infallible hero in a western that almost plays as a screwball comedy,…
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Les Girls
The curtain is falling on the MGM musical, and Gene Kelly's final song and dance at the studio is for a Paris-set…
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Five on the Black Hand Side
This quirky family comedy conceived as an antidote to blaxploitation pictures was adapted from a play that claims no goal beyond feel-good…
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The Maze (3-D)
It was a promising project for Allied Artists: William Cameron Menzies does a spooky horror movie in 3-D! Something creepy's going on…
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Gumshoe
When is a private eye parody not a parody? Stephen Frears' first feature strikes a delicate balance -- its nearly absurd hardboiled…
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Sleeping Dogs
Director Roger Donaldson has enjoyed a rewarding Hollywood career, but he began in New Zealand where this fantasy mini-epic about resistance to…
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Don’t Bother to Knock
"Wash your face, brush your teeth, and say your PRAYERS." Marilyn Monroe's first plunge into a dramatic starring role casts her as…