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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…
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Lifeboat
When Alfred Hitchcock films are praised, this 1944 picture tends to get overlooked. Yet it hooks and holds audiences as strongly as…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
A TCMFF 2017 PREAMBLE
“It’s the most wonderful time/Of the year…” – Andy Williams Well, yes and no. There is, after all, still about a week…
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Story of Sin
There's plenty of Sin in Walerian Boroczyk's searing movie but little of it can be laid at the feet of its heroine,…
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Ride the High Country
Before he became the flag bearer for cinema violence, Sam Peckinpah made his reputation with this unique western, a marvelous rumination on…
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The Russians are Coming / Career
Another offering of vintage East German pictures gives us all the pieces of a cinematic puzzle: Heiner Carow's 1968 memory- movie of…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
LET US NOW PRAISE THE MAD GENIUS OF RICHARD HARLAND SMITH
A few years ago, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of influential film critic Pauline Kael, I wrote the…
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AFTER THE FOX / BEING THERE
After The Fox, a sunny mid-sixties farce about con-artists and movie-makers, boasts a powerhouse pedigree featuring leading men Peter Sellers and Victor Mature,…
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The Vampire Bat
Another impressive horror restoration! Majestic Pictures pulls together a great cast, including Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill, for a smart gothic horror…
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The Skull
Peter Cushing! Christopher Lee! Each is at the top of his game, playing competing collectors of occult incunabula -- the kind that…
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‘How to Succeed’ – Take 2
Not so fast Savant — with the help of correspondent input, CineSavant presents more information on David Swift’s adaptation of How to…
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Invisible Ghost
Bela Lugosi fan alert! This Monogram horror opus is yet another narrative-challenged fumble of unmotivated, incomprehensible characters... but Bela's great in it,…
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Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar bounces back with an absorbing saga of a mother and daughter told in an interesting style. A woman feels isolated,…
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Peyton Place
The book was raw & dirty, and did you read what that girl did with that guy on page 167? Racking up…
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ELLE / BLOW UP
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend…
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Broadway's delightful -- but wickedly accurate -- satire of big business was brought to movie screens almost intact, with the story, the…
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3-D
J. K. Rowling is back with a wizard world tale over which she has complete control -- a diverting period adventure starring…
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23 Paces to Baker Street
No, not a blind Sherlock Holmes, but a blind Van Johnson who directs his butler, his girlfriend Vera Miles and the London…
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Tower
A fateful day is re-examined by its survivors, whose stories are told via a brilliant narrative arrangement, and the use of animated…
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Fences
Verdict? The film of August Wilson's play is absorbing, intense. If we rate by quality of writing, acting skill, and the craft…
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Phaedra
Or, "Never on Sunday with Your Stepson." Director Jules Dassin's monument to his beloved Melina Mercouri transposes a Greek tragedy to…