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MULTIPLE MANIACS
Andy Warhol was nothing if not a multi-media maven. Along with his ubiquitous silkscreens and sculpture, he embraced movie-making beginning as early as…
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Fear of the Velvet Curtain
T2 TRAINSPOTTING
In 1997 there came a little movie called Trainspotting, adapted by director Danny Boyle and scenarist John Hodge from Scottish writer Irvine…
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Our Man in Havana
It's Obi-Wan versus Fidel! Well, not really. The pre-Bond espionage genre lights up with cool intrigues and comic absurdities, as a Brit…
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Film / Notfilm
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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We Are The Flesh / The Lovers on the Bridge
Teetering on that thin edge between the ludicrous and the even more ludicrous, Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are The Flesh is a…
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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…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
OMG! OSCARS, MURIELS and GELDERBLOM’S “PRETTY MESSED UP”!
So, going into the final stretch before the Oscars are announced, I have a question: if you like—no, love this year’s front-running…
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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…