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Ercoli Kept the Negatives in The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970) | Blu-ray Review
February 5, 2019In many ways, as both its plot and title indicate, Luciano Ercoli’s jazzy 1970 directorial debut,...
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Perilous Passions in Aldrich’s Neglected “The Grissom Gang” (1971) | Blu-ray Review
January 15, 2019And the final nail in the coffin of Aldrich Studios was 1971’s The Grissom Gang, an...
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Sapphic Salutations in the Salacious “The Killing of Sister George” (1968) | Blu-ray Review
January 15, 2019Thanks to 2017’s “Feud,” it’s a prime time to examine some of the underrated gems from...
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Criterion Collection: Panique (1946) | Blu-ray Review
January 8, 2019Initially a box office flop and critical failure, French auteur Julien Duvivier’s 1946 title Panique is...
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Criterion Collection: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) | Blu-ray Review
January 1, 2019As John Simon’s insert essay “The Lower Depths” asserts in Criterion’s Blu-ray re-release of Ingmar Bergman’s...
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Criterion Collection: Forty Guns (1957) | Blu-ray Review
January 1, 2019Samuel Fuller’s formidably feminist, embracingly revisionist 1957 western Forty Guns announces its boldness in an opening...
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Criterion Collection: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) | Blu-ray Review
December 18, 2018As with almost all of Orson Welles’ filmography following the monolithic precedence established his 1941 debut...
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Criterion Collection: A Story from Chikamatsu | Blu-ray Review
December 11, 2018Playing like the tortured precursor to Masahiro Shinoda’s similarly tragic tale of stymied romance with 1969’s...
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Much Ado About Marriage in Pevney’s Firefox (1955) | Blu-ray Review
December 11, 2018Like nearly all of director Joseph Pevney’s films, 1955’s Foxfire has been more or less forgotten,...
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The Cookie Crumbles in Altman’s The Gingerbread Man (1998) | Blu-ray Review
December 11, 2018From the B-side of Robert Altman’s filmography is his 1998 attempt at neo-noir with The Gingerbread...