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The Vampire and the Ballerina
Renato Polselli's vampire rally ups the on-screen babe count first and provides horror thrills second, yet Ernesto Gastaldi's screenplay introduces an interesting…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott at Columbia, 1957-1960
Bid welcome to five westerns guaranteed to make one fall in love with the genre all over again. Each stars the ultra-virtuous…
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Five Steps to Danger
It's a road picture, a spy chase and an oddball romance all in one. A casual highway hitch-hike leads to intrigues with…
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The Holy Mountain (1926)
Teutonic art writ large and loud: Arnolf Fanck's first big 'mountain' classic wow'ed them back in 1926, with its massive vistas and…
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Espionage Agent
Is this the filmic birth of both the wartime OSS and the SuperSpy genre? State department diplomat trainee Joel McCrea weds refugee…
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Yes, we've all lived before. When I come back I don't care who I am as long as I'm in the 1%.…
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Gun Crazy
The Warner Archive comes through with a film noir gem that still has the power to make one's skin crawl, as a…
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A Fistful of Dollars
Sergio Leone's breakthrough international sensation has returned, in a 4K restoration from Italy that's bound to continue the controversy over odd choices…
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The City of the Dead
The frights of Horror Hotel are back in an improved presentation in this 2018 Limited Edition. Set in New England but filmed…
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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…
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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…