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First the Fatherland in Zvyagintsev’s “The Return” (2003) | Blu-ray Review
August 7, 2018Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev famously nabbed the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for...
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Walsh Gets Wacky in ‘The Revolt of Mamie Stover’ (1956) | Blu-ray Review
August 7, 2018In hindsight, something as tawdry and salacious as The Revolt of Mamie Stover seems to have...
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Desplechin gets Ish with “Ismael’s Ghosts” | DVD Review
August 7, 2018A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017...
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Criterion Collection: Dragon Inn (1967) | Blu-ray Review
July 24, 2018If martial arts could be spliced into opera, it would look something like King Hu’s 1967...
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Carpenter’s Nowhere to Be Seen in his Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
July 24, 2018John Carpenter’s first entry in the 1990s, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, plays like the death...
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The Spirit of Ferreri Found in Edoardo de Angelis’ Indivisible (2016) | Blu-ray Review
July 24, 2018Italian director Edoardo de Angelis received stateside distribution with this third title, the Siamese twin melodrama...
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Criterion Collection: Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood | Blu-ray Review
July 17, 2018She would be revered as one of the most famous sex symbols of the twentieth century....
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Cukor Goes Crazy with A Bill of Divorcement (1932) | Blu-ray Review
July 10, 2018A dated romantic melodrama based on a 1920s play by Clemence Dane (who won a Best...
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Wise Gets Going with Cat People in a False Sequel The Curse of the Cat People (1944) | Blu-ray Review
July 10, 2018An oddity amongst oddities from the annals of producer Val Lewton, 1944’s The Curse of the...
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Criterion Collection: Manila in the Claws of Light | Blu-ray Review
June 19, 2018Before a modern art-house renaissance of Filipino cinema thanks to the international acclaim of directors like...