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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…
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The Champion: A Story of America’s First Film Town
Proving again that there's always more to learn about film history, Marc J. Perez's documentary tells the story of a major American…
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Brigadoon
Balletic, stylized and rather aloof, MGM's biggest musical for 1954 still has what musical lovers crave -- good dancing, beautiful melodies and…
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The Flight of the Phoenix (Region B)
Forgotten amid Robert Aldrich's more critic-friendly movies is this superb suspense picture, an against-all-odds thriller that pits an old-school pilot against a…
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Erik the Conqueror
"And On The Eighth Day Bava Created Color." That's my sentiment with every new quality restoration of a Mario Bava picture. This…
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Hour of the Gun
It's the one Gunfight at the O.K. Corral saga that puts Western legend into proper perspective as to the nature of money,…
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Vampyr (1932)
Of all the legendary early horror films Carl Theodor Dreyer's vampire nightmare was once the most difficult to appreciate -- until Criterion's…
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OSS 117 Five Film Collection
He's fast on his feet, quick with a gun, and faster with the to-die-for beauties that only existed in the swinging '60s.…
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Crime of Passion
Witness the 'fifties transformation of the femme fatale from scheming murderess to self-deluding social climber. Barbara Stanwyck redefines herself once again in…
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One Million B.C.
Leapin' Lizards! The original cavemen vs. dinosaurs saga is a winner -- if viewer involvement trumps visual effects, it's got a narrow…
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The Big Sick
This modern romantic comedy about stand-up comedians generates a genuine warmth about people, the ones-who-need-people kind. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's…
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The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury adapted to the screen is always something to check out; this Jack Smight- directed trio of stories bound together by…
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The Emperor in August
This great recent Japanese epic is all but unknown here -- and is the kind of adult historical show that we seem…
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The Love of a Woman
Welcome to the world of Jean Grémillon, where adult characters work through adult problems without benefit of melodramatic excess. The impressively directed…
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Love with the Proper Stranger
What are two individualistic, highly motivated movie stars supposed to do when faced with an unimaginative studio system eager to misuse their…
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The Lost World (1925)
*Sigh* — Not a day goes by that I don’t miss my escaped brontosaurus. This wonder movie of the silent era, which…
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Flipper Season One
Back in 1964 a lot of people still thought dolphins were fish, but by the time this TV show was finished, we…
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A ‘Close Encounters’ Example of Forced Perspective
‘Close Encounters’ awareness is up this week, what with a national mini-release of the 1977 Steven Spielberg hit, so I reached into…