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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…
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Seven Days in May
A military coup in the U.S.? General Burt Lancaster's scheme would be flawless if not for true blue Marine Kirk Douglas, who snitches…
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How to Steal a Million
William Wyler's 1960s screwball heist comedy is a squeaky-clean high fashion vehicle for stars Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole -- who of…
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The Indian Fighter
Kirk Douglas grits his teeth and goes full macho, wrasslin' with that beautiful Sioux up in the high country -- the Sioux…
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I Am Not Your Negro
A welcome blast of clear thought, Raoul Peck's documentary represents the point of view and philosophy of James Baldwin, the writer and…
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The Accidental Tourist
Is it a modern classic? I think so. Lawrence Kasdan's best movie embraces characters often lampooned, dismissed, or stereotyped as kooks --…
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
Perhaps motivated by the success of La La Land, Criterion has reissued two impressive Jacques Demy musicals as separate releases. This all-singing,…
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The Day of the Jackal
One of the best international thrillers ever has almost become an obscurity, for reasons unknown - this Blu-ray comes from Australia. Edward…
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You’ll Never Get Rich
"Am I decent?" They said that Ginger Rogers gave Fred Astaire sex appeal, but the teaming of Astaire and Rita Hayworth is…
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A Farewell to Arms (1957)
This remake of a pre-Code classic adds amazing European locations, glorious Technicolor and entire armies on the move, yet doesn't improve on…
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The Salesman
This Iranian import made news when its director found himself on the wrong side of the recent travel ban. It's well worth…
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Donnie Darko
Many weird-world genre bending millennial epics have already dated badly, but not Richard Kelly's sci-fi / horror / satirical mind-trip about a…
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Ophélia
New Wave director Claude Chabrol goes off in an odd direction with this Francophone adaptation of Hamlet. Convinced that his father was…
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Caltiki, The Immortal Monster
It creeps and leaps and slides and glides along the wall... and then it eats your face, dude. Mario Bava and Riccardo…
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The Scar
Director Steve Sekely's hardboiled film noir leans heavily on the talents of star-producer Paul Henreid and camera ace John Alton -- the…
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The Rounders
The laid-back, plot challenged non-violent western gets a boost in this folksy comedy about two aging cowboys with less sense than the…
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Buena Vista Social Club
Cuba has just been opened up to Americans, but twenty years ago musician Ry Cooder saw to it that a vanishing music…
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The Delinquents
"Here is the screen's most shocking exposé, of the 'Baby-Facers' just taking their first stumbling steps down Sin Street U.S.A.!" Robert Altman's…