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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Manhattan goes nuts as thousands of Beatles fans arrive to celebrate the arrival of the Mop Tops from Liverpool. Experts at wringing…
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The Quiller Memorandum
Michael Anderson directs a classy slice of '60s spy-dom. In West Berlin, George Segal's Quiller struggles through a near- existential battle with…
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The Triple Echo
This obscure 1972 thriller features excellent performances by Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed, and marks the feature debut of the great director…
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The Body Snatcher
This bona fide classic may be, as Gregory Mank says, the best American horror picture of the 1940s. The teaming of Boris…
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The Fiancée & The Invisibles
Why do stories about resisting the Nazis seem so important right now? Here are two discs from different labels, with one subject.…
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The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot
The man who did what and then what? Robert D. Krzykowski's first feature isn't a throwaway joke, but an elegantly crafted and…
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Cleopatra Jones
A good-natured if rickety assemblage of action movie cliches, Cleopatra Jones is dominated by two bigger than life actresses, Tamara Dobson and…
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The Glass Bottom Boat
It's wacky, daffy and incredibly square, yet Frank Tashlin's late career Doris Day romp has a certain gotta-watch interest factor: the male…
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THE 13th ANNUAL MURIEL (MUR13L) AWARDS
Critics groups. The Film Independent Spirits Awards. The Oscars. Whew. Awards season is finally over, right? Well, yes and no. Because though…
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Wanda
The work of a great, original, natural filmmaker, Wanda continues to confound viewers that don't recognize honest human reality when they see…
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The Deadly Mantis
It's big, it buzzes, and it screams like a banshee. So why is the Mantis monster so ho-hum? Universal-International tried to squeak…
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Detour
This is a big one, the restoration we long thought would never come. CineSavant tries to explain what makes Edgar G. Ulmer's…
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The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk took our heads off with this intense, thematically adult tale of love and obsession in a Depression-Era flying circus that's…
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The 50 Foot Art of Reynold Brown
Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures by Daniel Zimmer and David J. Hornung 2009, The Illustrated Press, Hardcover, 224pp. ,$39.95 – 2017,…
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Jivaro 3-D
Verily, Blu-ray 3-D is better than most theatrical 3-D! Paramount's fourth and last 3-D production went out to theaters only in 2-D,…
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Psyche 59
The story of a troubled marriage and a tenacious home wrecker, Psyche 59 is a Brigitte Bardot movie without Bardot – despite…
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The Return of the Vampire
CineSavant contributor and advisor Gary Teetzel revisits a film he reviewed for us seventeen years ago. Instead of continuing to play his…
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
With his exaggerated visuals, eye-popping color and frantic characterizations, Frank Tashlin has been promoted to a genuine 'fifties icon. This freewheeling comedy…
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Lords of Chaos
Writer/director (and former Bathory drummer) Jonas Åkerlund’s new black metal murder dramedy Lords of Chaos has really stuck with this critic since I…
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Der Hund Von Baskerville
Sherlock Holmes fans have another good version of a favorite Holmes tale to savor, a late German silent film in full expressionist…
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The Doctor
William Hurt, Christine Lahti and Elizabeth Perkins do excellent work in this superior drama which delivers an important, unforced life lesson. An…
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Phantom Lady
Robert Siodmak's first film noir is a visually expressive masterpiece in the lush romantic tradition that imposes a dreamlike mood on a…
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The Admirable Crichton
True love and the British Empire collide in 1957’s The Admirable Crichton, the riches to rags story of one hard-to-get butler and…
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The Mark of Zorro (Im Zeichen des Zorro)
Hollywood classics don't have to be stuffy -- this 1940 swashbuckling adventure has style, great action, laughs and one of the most…
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The Third Secret
This moody, unsettling whodunnit benefits from sensitive cinematography, fine direction and a perfectly-cast group of players. Stephen Boyd gets a worthwhile starring…