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Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero: Filmed mostly on the streets in newly-liberated territory, Roberto Rossellini's gripping war-related shows are blessed…
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
This time they may have gotten it right! If a knife or a straight razor won't do, how about killing a victim…
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The Man from Planet X
The first visitor from outer space in the '50s sci-fi boom is one very curious guy, dropping to Earth in a ship…
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Marcel Pagnol’s The Marseille Trilogy
No longer out of reach, Marcel Pagnol's stunning 3-feature saga of love and honor in a French seaport is one of the…
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8 Million Ways to Die
Tonight on 'movies we really want to like' we have Hal Ashby's final feature, an L.A.- based crime saga with a great…
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Death Line aka Raw Meat
This early gore-horror picture has a remarkable emphasis on human values, believe it or not, with a 'monster' that nevertheless is a…
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The Lodger (1927)
Hitchcock's first self-professed 'Hitch' picture is still a winner. Many of his recurring themes are present, and some of his visual fluidity…
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Good Morning (ohayo)
It's Yasujiro Ozu in light mode, except that his insights into the human social mechanism make this cheerful neighborhood comedy as meaningful…
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Robert Mulligan's late career gem is a beautiful, fad-free tale of teenage romance with universal appeal, famed for introducing Reese Witherspoon to…
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Blast-Off
An admiring nod to '60s dream siren Daliah Lavi! American-International leaps into an epic Jules Verne comedy about a trip to the…
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Joe versus the Volcano
"May you live to be a thousand years old, sir." Still the most widely unheralded great movie on the books, John Patrick…
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Le Désordre et la nuit
Lovers of hot-blooded French noir will love this 1958 B&W drama, which swaps violence for a dangerous sexual relationship between a cop…
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The Paradine Case
This isn't the only Alfred Hitchcock film for which the love does not flow freely, but his 1947 final spin on the…
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The Picasso Summer
Yet another puzzle picture, that came out on DVD back with the first wave of WAC films in 2010. An expensive romance…
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Spotlight on a Murderer
The uncanny Georges Franju strikes again, in an Agatha Christie-like thriller imbued with his special mood, the eerie music of Maurice Jarre…
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The Gumball Rally
Cars! Cars! Cars! What climate accord, when we're celebrating the internal combustion engine! One of the best of the breezy '70s action…
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Easily the most mellow of the films of Sam Peckinpah, this relatively gentle western fable sees Jason Robards discovering water where it…
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Trespass (1992)
Crooked treasure hunters tangle with menacing black gangsters in this crime-action siege movie from 1992, with a fine filmmaker pedigree. The late…
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Inferno 3-D
Now in Region A -- One of the best releases from the early- '50s 3-D boom. Millionaire Robert Ryan is abandoned to…
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One, Two, Three
Some like their comedy hot and some like it cold. Billy Wilder opted to step on the joke accelerator to see what…
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Ghost World
Daniel Clowes' comics creation receives an A-Plus film adaptation through the directorial filter of Terry Zwigoff. The show has more going for…
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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2
After four years Martin Scorsese is back with another six filmic gems from all corners of the Earth. Love struggles in the…
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Things to Come (2016)
Mia Hansen-Løve's portrait of the travails of a middle-aged philosophy teacher is a plum acting vehicle for Isabelle Huppert It steers clear…
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Who’ll Stop the Rain
A killer book (Dog Soldiers) must hide behind a Credence Clearwater tune. Karel Reisz's killer movie about the moral residue of Vietnam…
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Those Redheads from Seattle 3-D
Another 3-D breakthrough, this time for a Paramount musical rescued from oblivion and remastered by the 3-D Archive. Rhonda Fleming and Gene…
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Night of the Demon (Rendez-vous avec la peur)
This French disc release of the Jacques Tourneur classic gets everything right — it includes both versions in perfect picture transfers. Devil…