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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…
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Decoy aka Policewoman Decoy
Unsung actress Beverly Garland becomes TV's first lady cop, in what's claimed to be the first TV show filmed on the streets…
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The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers
A breezy five-episode compilation movie about swindles plays out in five film capitals, under the eye of five different directors including Claude…
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Pelle the Conqueror
Bille August's 1987 award winner is yet another full cinema meal, a deeply satisfying drama about working conditions among Scandinavian immigrants back…
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Kiss Me Deadly Restoration 20th Anniversary — Savant Article
How did Kiss Me Deadly come to be restored? The real question should be, how did filmdom lose track of its original…
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The Walerian Borowczyk Short Film Collection
That bad boy of (mostly) French cinema Walerian Borowczyk has been converting doubters into fans for sixty years, even though his pictures…
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Marjorie Morningstar
The most-read book since Gone with the Wind looked at the coming of age struggle of an ambitious, upwardly mobile Jewish girl…
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The Assassin
Writer-director Elio Petri scores big in his first feature, the story of a heel suspected of murder. Is he a killer, or…
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The Mephisto Waltz
Jacqueline Bisset's in a heck of a fix. Her hubby Alan Alda has been seduced by promises of fame and fortune from…
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100 Girls by Bunny Yeager
A look at the art photography of Bunny Yeager, starring Bettie Page? We can think of less pleasant ways to pass the…