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Political Pleasures in Potter’s The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) | Blu-ray Review
September 25, 2018Few of director H.C. Potter’s films seem to have endured the tests of time, at least...
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Post Rings Twice with Devious The Baby (1973) | Blu-ray Review
September 25, 2018A prolific television director throughout the 1950s and 60s (the 1955 series “Waterfront” would land him...
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Dumont’s a Delicacy with Childhood of a Martyr in Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Blu-ray Review
September 25, 2018Nearly a year after its celebrated premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the 2017 Cannes...
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Same Song Different Dinosaur in Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Blu-ray Review
September 25, 2018While it took in over a billion dollars globally, nearly half of that at the domestic...
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Criterion Collection: Smithereens (1982) | Blu-ray Review
August 21, 2018Known primarily for generating Madonna’s acting career in 1985 with her sophomore film Desperately Seeking Susan,...
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Lange at the Farm – Part 2 in “A Thousand Acres” (1997) | Blu-ray Review
August 21, 2018A highly compromised and ultimately disappointing adaptation of Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres...
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Lange at the Farm – Part 1 in “Country” (1984) | Blu-ray Review
August 21, 2018The 1984 melodrama Country exists as a minor yet notable footnote in the limited but prolific...
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Criterion Collection: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Blu-ray Review
August 14, 2018Criterion revisits the neglected 1982 indie classic from Robert M. Young, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez,...
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Carpenter Gets Mouthy with Inventive “In the Mouth of Madness” (1994) | Blu-ray Review
August 14, 2018In the continued resurrection of several forgotten and neglected titles by John Carpenter (which included recent...
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Zvyagintsev gets Banished to a Quiet Place in the Country with “The Banishment” | Blu-ray
August 7, 2018More exciting than revisiting Zvyagintsev’s 2003 debut is the opportunity to see his neglected 2007 follow-up...