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Phoenix
What's contemporary Europe got that we ain't got? Powerful, serious filmmaking like that by Christian Petzold, starring the impressive Nina Hoss. Their…
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Candy
The dirty book of the '60s became an all-star dirty movie with Brando, Burton, Starr, Coburn, Matthau, Astin, Aznavour and Huston all…
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In a Lonely Place
It's a different Bogart -- a character performance in a Nicholas Ray noir about distrust anxiety in romance. Gloria Grahame is the…
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Janis: Little Girl Blue
An amazing talent gone way too soon, Janis Joplin is more than her boozy, brash public image. This bio docu has the…
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Where to Invade Next
America's favorite gadfly has made something worth watching -- a European tour of Great Ideas that American would do well to steal…
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Julia
One of the best-remembered dramas of the '70s gives us controversial actresses, a lavish production and a story by the even more…
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Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents
These are the Eyes that Satirize! Everybody's seen their imagery but few know the story of these anonymous performance artists and their…
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
The irrepressible Sam Fuller fashions a crime thriller for German TV with his expected eccentricity: old-fashioned hardboiled scripting, freeform direction and bits…
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When You’re Older, Dear Adam & Berlin Around the Corner
Berlin Around the Corner DVD Defa Film Library 1966-90 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Berlin um die…
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In the French Style
It's a genuine forgotten gem: American student Jean Seberg's five-year adventure in Paris is mostly a period of romantic frustration. Irwin Shaw…
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Three Brothers (Tre fratelli)
Franceso Rosi's warm, thoughtful tale sees a family gathering observe grievous modern problems -- after so much violence in Italian politics people…
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The Second Civil War
Is satire obsolete? Our appalling present political reality has surpassed some of the wildest jokes in director Joe Dante's 'exaggerated, outrageous' 1997…
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Father of the Bride
This is one of Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor's best, written and directed by the classy MGM team of director Vincente Minnelli…
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Cutter’s Way
"Sorry, I just slashed my wrists." "Well, tape 'em!" This is the aftermath of the '60s protest movement. Ivan Passer's riveting murder…
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Dillinger
Guns! Guns! Guns! John Milius' rootin' tootin' bio of the most famous of the '30s bandits has plenty of good things to…
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Try and Get Me!
This noir hits with the force of a blast furnace -- Cy Endfield's wrenching tale of social neglect and injustice will tie…
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The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
Take a look at the roots of American campaign image consciousness, and the then-new techniques of cinéma vérité to bring a new…
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The Gallant Hours
Director Robert Montgomery's last feature is a war movie like no other, a study in leadership and command with no combat scenes.…
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The City of the Dead
This horror almost-classic has Christopher Lee and great atmosphere. Keep a sharp lookout for All Them Witches: they're not easy to spot...…
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Exodus
"This land is mine, God made this land for me." Those are just song lyrics, while Otto Preminger's politically daring 70mm mega-production…
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Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock assembles all the right elements for this respected mystery thriller. Joan Fontaine is concerned that her new hubby Cary Grant…
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Blue Denim
Hollywood tackles the big issues! This adapted play about an unwanted teen pregnancy is actually quite good, thanks to fine performances by…
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Panic in Year Zero!
Hey, we're having a NUCLEAR family crisis, so load up your shotgun, grab the grenades and head for the hills, stealing what…
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The Stuff
Forget Caltiki and forget The Blob: 'The Stuff' doesn't eat you, you eat it! Larry Cohen takes a page from Professor Quatermass…
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Alexander the Great
Tired of stupid sword 'n' sandal costume pictures? Robert Rossen's all-star bio-epic of the charter founder of the Masons is a superior…
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Journey to the Seventh Planet
What horrors will we find on the planet Yoo-rah-nuss? A cyclopean dinosaur? Nasty spider monsters? A megalomaniac cerebellum that can turn our…