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“Manos” The Hands of Fate
Auteur Harold 'P.' Warren puts the Pee back in showmanship! After seeing this frightless Texan fright show you'll want to nominate Ed…
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The Purple Plain
Fans of this show know it as the It's a Wonderful Life of war movies, an intensely moving tale that restores feeling…
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Brooklyn
The story of a brave, innocent immigrant gets a glorious re-telling. Never fear, for this emotional but unsentimental tale of an Irish…
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Anastasia
That scarlet woman Ingrid is back from exile, and hypocritical Hollywood is not complaining -- Anatole Litvak and Arthur Laurents make an…
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Susan Slept Here
All hail Frank Tashlin! America's subversive secret weapon of the 1950s made incredible adult live-action cartoon movies that satirized all the sex…
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Dreams Rewired
Looking for a visionary and poetic film with something relevant to say about the ongoing personal tech revolution? Brilliant vintage film clips,…
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The Hateful Eight
Did Quentin Tarantino stumble this time out? His tale of western killers sharing a snowbound cabin builds almost zero suspense, and the…
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A Brighter Summer Day
Superb filmmaking! Edward Yang's chronicle of the children of Chinese exiles in Taiwan follows one teen's strange story of accidental delinquency, muted…
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Kill Me Again
Two guys, some guns, a suitcase full of cash and the open road: what could go wrong? Val Kilmer and Michael Madsen…
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Vessel
Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomberts built a reproductive clinic on a ship, sailed it to countries where abortion is outlawed -- Ireland, Poland,…
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The Manchurian Candidate
It's the classic paranoid conspiracy that won't go away... and that seems more possible with every passing year. Laurence Harvey is a…
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Losing Ground
Kathleen Collins' name made a big cultural rebound with a single review in The New Yorker -- of an independent movie she…
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Spies (Spione)
Guns! Bombs! Assassinations! Blackmail! Fritz Lang invents the escapist super-spy thriller! To seize a set of political documents the evil Haghi dispatches…
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Michael Collins
On the centennial of the Easter Uprising and just a few days past St. Patrick's Day, WHV present's Neil Jordan's biopic epic…
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Paris Belongs to Us
Director Jacques Rivette just passed away back in January. There's more interest lately in his 12-hour opus Out 1, but if you'll…
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Her Majesty, Love
It's the final Hollywood film by the legendary Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller, and it's also a terrific talkie feature debut for W.C.…
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I Knew Her Well (Io la conoscevo bene)
She's beautiful, desired and enjoys a social mobility in the improving Italian economy... but she's also a pawn of cruel materialist values.…
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The Trip — Psych-Out
Roger Corman took an artistic turn near the end of his directing days to flex his creative muscles. After the finish of…
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Spring Takes Time
Get yer terrific long-suppressed film history right here, folks -- this is what it takes to get your movie banned in East…
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The Strangler
Lock your doors! Hulking menace Victor Buono gets the full-on psycho treatment, based (very) roughly on early reports of The Boston Strangler.…
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The Big Heat
An Encore Edition brings back Fritz Lang's searing police corruption tale, with the great performances of Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee…
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When Eight Bells Toll
This forgotten Alistair MacLean action thriller packs a rare starring role for the young Anthony Hopkins -- he's really good as secret…
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Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Dunwich Horror
Look out! Here come two A.I.P. horror pix from the soggy end of the Poe cycle: the first features Jason Robards, an…
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Bad Boy
This proto- juvenile delinquent epic launched celebrated WW2 warrior Audie Murphy on the road to Hollywood fame, fortune and more troubled times. Audie commits…
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The Decline of Western Civilization, + Part II The Metal Years
The formidable Penelope Spheeris penetrates L.A.'s punk and glam rock scenes, connecting with surly malcontents that would greet a normal docu with flipped fingers…
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Contagion
Savant goes back five years to praise Steven Soderbergh's superb pandemic thriller, the one that warns us to never, ever shake hands…