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In this Corner of the World
Away from Hollywood's stifling commercial limits, Fumiyo Kouno's manga about a young bride in wartime Japan has no illusions regarding the human…
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The Killer is Loose
Psycho killers long ago lost their novelty, but in 1956 Budd Boetticher and Wendell Corey gave us Leon 'Foggy' Poole, a screen…
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Play Dirty
In a war film, what's the difference between nasty exploitation and just plain honest reportage? André De Toth made tough-minded action films…
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City of Industry
Harvey Keitel takes center stage as a double-crossed crook goes for blood after a major jewel heist turns sour -- and bloody.…
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Hell on Frisco Bay
I tell you it's rough out there on Frisco Bay, especially when you say the word 'Frisco' within earshot of a proud…
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Porky Pig 101
A welcome to new CineSavant guest reviewer "B", whose encyclopedic knowledge has been a boon to the page since it began. This…
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Topper
They're non-corporeal cut-ups, rich ghosts on the town with nothing better to do than spice up the love life of Roland Young's…
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Junior Bonner
Sam Peckinpah was a fine director of actors when the material was right, and his first collaboration with Steve McQueen is an…
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The Old Dark House — 1932
It's a genuine Universal horror classic that to my knowledge has never been available in a decent presentation -- but The Cohen…
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The Sea Wolf
Now restored to perfection, this genuine classic hasn't been seen intact for way over sixty years. Michael Curtiz and Robert Rossen adapt…
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T-Men — Special Edition
Found: a must-see Film noir in all its brutal glory, restored to a level of quality not seen in years. Anthony Mann…
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Lost Horizon (1937)
It's a wonder movie from the 1930s, a political fantasy that imagines a Utopia of peace and kindness hidden away in a…
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Superman: The Movie – 2 Film Collection
I guess there are plenty of adults now too young to remember when Christopher Reeve made his debut as The Man of…
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Portrait of Jennie
David O. Selznick's marvelous romantic fantasy ode to Jennifer Jones was almost wholly unappreciated back in 1948. It's one of those peculiar…
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Avanti!
Need a break from violence, misery, and injustice? Or maybe just the network TV news? Billy Wilder's last great comic romance is…
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Big Business Girl
What does a working girl have to do to get ahead, when all she has in her favor is an incredible face,…
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The Lure
No jokes about fish and visitors please -- Agnieszka Smoczyńska's horror fantasy musical is indeed about delectable creatures from the deep, but…
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Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick's contribution to great cinema of the 1970s offers his vision of what an epic should be. Transported by images that…
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Titanic (1943)
In 1942, with the war going fairly well for Germany, Joseph Goebbels green-lit a lavish, technically complex account of the sinking of…
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Pity the poor exhibitors in 1953 that splurged on 3-D equipment, only to see the payroll soar and the profits fall. Nope,…
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All the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations
What is this? Sex-oriented movies with believable psychodramatics, made by a committed artist with taste and talent? Joe Sarno's pictures still aren't…
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
One of the best pictures to come out of Hollywood in the late 1960s, Sydney Pollack's screen version of Horace McCoy's hardboiled…
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Churchill
The scope of this slice of wartime history is so small, it's almost the movie equivalent of a one-man show. There are…
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Gun Fury 3-D
Rock Hudson and Donna Reed star in a kidnapping-vengeance-pursuit western filmed in large part in gorgeous Sedona, Arizona, in 3-D and (originally)…
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The Chase (UK)
A big welcome to UK disc purveyors Indicator, or Powerhouse, or how does Powerhouse Indicator sound? Savant's first review from the new…
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The Big Knife
What seemed too raw for 1955 still packs a punch, as Robert Aldrich takes a meat cleaver to the power politics of…