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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…
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Fahrenheit 451
François Truffaut's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's dystopian, illiterate future looks better than ever, and the scary part is that some of its…
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy's international breakthrough musical gives us Catherine Deneuve and wall-to-wall Michel Legrand pop-jazz -- it's a different animal than La La…
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Sunset in the West
This charming Roy Rogers oater could reboot interest in vintage 'series' westerns. Basically a film for little kids, it's earnestly played by…
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From Hell It Came
You Axed for it, as Forry would say: the grade Z horror movie that launched a thousand bad puns is also an…
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36 Hours
Long before movies routinely created 'worlds' with their own twisted fantasy logic, only a few paranoid thrillers, usually odd genre items, tried…
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The Saga of Anatahan
Take one fiercely individual auteur fed up with the Hollywood game, put him in Kyoto with a full Japanese film company, and…
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Eyes Without a Face (Bfi Import)
Sometimes a movie is simply too good for just one special edition... Savant reached out to nab a British Region B import…
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Electric Boogaloo, the wild untold story of Cannon Films
Director and documentarian Mark Hartley scores both a film history and comedy success with this 'wild, untold' account of the 1980s film…
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
Can radical theater make a good movie? Elio Petri continues his string of biting social comment movies with a black comedy about…