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The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse
The little heroes of Albert Lamorisse’s films are alone but not necessarily lonely, they’re just particular about the company they keep, whether…
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Happy Birthday Irving Rapper
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Tarzan the Ape Man
Hopefully this release is just the beginning of a new series of WAC Tarzan remasters. The original pre-Code classic has everything we…
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Devil’s Partner + Creature from the Haunted Sea
A pact with Satan! A pop-eyed sea monster! The lurid artwork for this fairly obscure 1961 horror double bill looks like adult…
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Cushing Curiosities
Severin Films’ new Blu ray release is called Cushing Curiosities for a reason. Ranging from a no-nonsense policier to a soft-core vampire…
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The film adaptation of Mordecai Richler's book retains the original's richness and feeling for character, thanks to fine direction by Ted Kotcheff…
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Hawks in Action
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Oppenheimer 4K
Christopher Nolan's biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a welcome departure from present film trends. The story of the 'father' of the…
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Top Gun
December 31st marks a very special time of year, film fans: Val Kilmer’s birthday. Kilmer remains one of the all-time favorite movie…
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Just because a movie is in black and white doesn’t mean it has to be colorless, but such is the case with…
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Essential Film Noir Collection 5
An eclectic stack of B&W thrillers -- Island of Doomed Men, The Red Menace, The Burglar, and 13 West Street -- is…
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Holiday Cheer
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The Warriors 4K
This is a Christmas movie? The 1980s began early with this high-concept, edgy-but-silly urban fantasy dreamed up by Walter Hill when an…
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Blast of Silence
This once-obscure item has accumulated a solid cult following. Allen Baron writes, directs and stars in a gritty on-the-streets tale of a…
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Remembering Ryan O’Neal
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The Life of Emile Zola
Does it Creak? Not at all. Paul Muni brings this revered biographical drama to life, even if it's less about Zola and…
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Diamond Head
Take a full-blown soap opera and add scenery to die for . . . statehood brings changes to the islands, and a…
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The Last Picture Show 4K
Peter Bogdanovich's crowning achievement gets the 4K nod from Criterion, with additional Blu-ray extras plus the entire belated sequel Texasville -- in…
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The Quatermass Experiment
It's the one and only original Hammer Sci-fi thriller that changed the genre, inspiring good filmmakers and copycats alike. Val Guest adapts…
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Brando
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Our Town (1940)
A new video remaster makes us want to ring bells -- ClassicFlix's improvement over earlier eyesore discs is like night and day.…
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The Conformist
While a would-be dictator dominates the breakfast bar of a Palm Beach golf club, Bernardo Bertolucci reminds us of a glamorous time—1938…
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The Exiles
Take a trip to Los Angeles in the late 1950s . . . but to the low-rent district of Bunker Hill, where…
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The Last Tycoon
Elia Kazan and Harold Pinter's classy adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel looks and plays better than ever, with a fine…
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Queen of Outer Space
"I hate her! I hate dat qveen!" Despite being one of the most maladroit sci-fiers of the '50s, color and 'scope and…