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Bedazzled (1967)
All hail the memory of Stanley Donen. We also appreciate the razor-sharp satire of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, whose genius Donen…
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The Mole People
Not enough love is set aside for this ambitious, under-budgeted Lost Civilization epic. John Agar and Cynthia Patrick find love in an…
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THREE GREAT ACADEMY AWARD ALTERNATIVES— PLUS, FEARLESS OSCAR PREDICTONS, 2019 EDITION!
The Oscars are looming, in case you hadn’t heard. I spent last evening with a last-minute Oscar lightning round screening of Willem…
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Audition
It could be described as lyrically sadistic but de Sade himself might flinch at Audition – like its fragile leading lady, Takashi…
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Mad Dog and Glory
What can you say about a hybrid gangster picture that generates a good feeling about people? We really like this show --…
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Death in Venice
High class Italo filmmaking slips into the '70s with Luchino Visconti still on top. This handsomely appointed period drama recreates Venice of…
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
It's cold-blooded murder, I tell ya! Feisty Ruth Gordon goes undercover to find the evidence of homicide at Geraldine Page's desert home,…
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The Vengeance of She
Olinka Berova is as sexy as Ursula Andress, but even with a new woman producer Hammer's She sequel doesn't give this new…
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Ecco + The Forbidden
Those scurrilous Italian 'mondo' films are difficult to see in original versions; this Something Weird double bill yields an American hybrid of…
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The Wrong Box
Director Bryan Forbes tries his hand at comedy. His nostalgic Victorian farce features an eclectic choice of Brit stars -- established greats…
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Untamed
Fiery dame Susan Hayward carries this far-flung 'women's epic' to delirious romantic extremes, as her Irish heroine defies nature and exploits admirers…
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La vérité
Brigitte Bardot proved her mettle as a dramatic actress in H.G. Clouzot's strikingly pro-feminist courtroom epic, that puts the modern age of…
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Tarzan Goes to India/Tarzan’s Three Challenges
Jane Goodall fell for Tarzan at an early age – ‘he married the wrong Jane’ she said, half joking. A confirmed tree-hugger,…
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A Star Is Born
Last fall's audience-pleaser is indeed a pleasant surprise, not because it's a classic but because it isn't plain awful. An unnecessary third…
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
Make way for the ribald, very non-PC adventures of the GI doofus Private Snafu -- demonstrator of the wrong way to do…
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My Name is Julia Ross
Is this any way to treat a lady? Lovely Nina Foch just wanted a job, but she instead becomes the fall-gal in…
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Horror Express
It's a spooky, snowy train ride across thousands of miles of Siberian rails -- trapped on board with a victim-possessing creature from…
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The Midnight Man
Murder strikes a private college. In the new security guard's efforts to find the killer, he uncovers sordid secrets and multiple unsavory…
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Beyond the Limit (The Honorary Consul)
Retitled from The Honorary Consul and sold in America with one of Paramount's sleaziest ad campaigns, John MacKenzie and Christopher Hampton's adaptation…
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NICE GOIN’, KID: DICK MILLER (1928-2019)
A lot of words have already been written this week, and hopefully a lot more will be written in the next few…
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Yanks
A million American GIs are bivouacked in the English countryside, awaiting debarkation to France... and the green fields are loaded with young…
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper arrived in America with the kind of fanfare usually reserved for visiting royalty. Thanks to Joseph E. Levine’s million…
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Television’s Lost Classics Vol One: John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes springs forth as a major 1950s talent in these two 'Primetime Special' dramatic plays broadcast live on ABC and CBS.…
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In the Heat of the Night
The racial animus that roiled recent elections in Mississippi was a reminder of segregation’s cockroach-like resiliency in that state – it wasn’t…
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Gardens of Stone
Francis Coppola's get-out-of-debt directorial assignments may not be his most personal movies, but this one is satisfying just the same, with its…