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An experimental film by an Irish playwright, shot in New York with a silent comedian at the twilight of his career? Samuel…
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Summer Storm
Here's a real gem -- a 'classic' Chekhov story turned into a compelling tale of lust and murder. George Sanders and Linda…
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World Without End
"Thru the Time Barrier, 552 years Ahead... Roaring To the Far Reaches of Titanic Terror, Crash-Landing Into the Nightmare Future!" ... and…
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September Storm — 3-D
3-D in CinemaScope? That seems like a strange combination, but this obscure treasure hunt adventure with Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens is…
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Cinema Paradiso
Giuseppe Tornatore's ode to the Italian love of movies was a major hit here in 1990, despite being severely cut by Miramax.…
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Compulsion
This classy Fox production was considered the epitome of sick film subject matter in the pre- Psycho year of 1959, the true…
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RoboCop 2
It's ugly, it's violent, and it's graphic novelist Frank Miller's nasty vision through and through. Scream Factory's Collector's Edition brings out the…
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45 Years
Andrew Haigh's quiet, two-person relationship tale won a lot of friends last year. A revelation from the past changes everything in the…
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The Valley of Gwangi
Gwangi! Ready your rifles and lariats because this is one of the best. Harryhausen's happiest dinos- à go-go epic comes thundering back…
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
A thyroid operation every ten years, plus regular libations of an eerie green liquid, has allowed Anton Diffring to live over a…
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Finian’s Rainbow
As a musical it's excellent -- fine tunes and lyrics, great singing and dancing by the ever-youthful Fred Astaire, the glorious songbird…
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
Joan Micklin Silver applies sensitive direction to Ann Beattie's novel about a lonely guy trying to win back his girlfriend, and going…
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A*P*E 3-D
It's awful, it's terrible, it's difficult to watch -- but it's finally available in its original 3-D, in the improved Space-Vision process.…
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The Before Trilogy
Who would have thought that a '90s 'slacker' independent filmmaker would make such a strong romantic statement? Well, it's not all romance…
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Framed
In the 1970s crime films morphed into sadistic vigilante fantasies about tough-guy heroes avenging terrible crimes against their families. Veteran noir director…
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Kiss of Death
This is the ultimate in screen sadism circa 1947, and it's all in the debut film performance of Richard Widmark as a…
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Edge of Eternity
Ace director Donald Siegel uses superior direction to transform a so-so who-dunnit into a thrilling big screen spectacle, using the Grand Canyon…
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Ermanno Olmi's three-hour saga is a masterful ethnographic recreation of the long-gone way of life of Italian tenant farmers, virtual slaves working…
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Panther Girl of the Kongo
Did Republic's serial-makers lose their marbles? This is an endurance test of a thriller, with 12 chapters that refuse to advance a…
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Deluge
Do rediscovered 'lost' movies always disappoint? This Depression-era pre-Code science fiction disaster thriller was unique in its day, and its outrageously ambitious…
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3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol
Being called the French Hitchcock does Claude Chabrol a disservice, as his dark thrillers approach mystery and suspense almost completely through character,…
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By Sidney Lumet
A lengthy talk-fest interview of the underrated filmmaker, who takes us through his life story as a personal journey, not a string…
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The Boy Friend
It's hard to think of a musical that would benefit more from a Blu-ray boost than Ken Russell's kaleidoscopic all dancing, all…
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The Gate
Screen horror gets a fun-ride boost with the adventures of a trio of home-alone kids squaring off against demons from, 'right in…
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Breakout / Der Mann Ohne Nerven
Charlie Bronson cashed in big with this lightweight action thriller co-starring Jill Ireland and Robert Duvall. Did Duvall get involved because the…
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Arrival
Yep, yet another fleet of giant alien spaceships has Earth surrounded, but Denis Villeneuve's movie is not your garden variety invasion fantasy.…