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Sex, Lies and Emancipate: Schlesinger Finds Fantasy in New Wave Classic “Billy Liar” (1963) | Blu-Ray Review
May 5, 2020An important piece of the short-lived British New Wave of the early 1960s was John Schlesinger’s...
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A Woman is a Woman: De Sica Does MacLaine in Enjoyable Omnibus “Woman Times Seven” (1967) | Blu-ray Review
May 5, 2020Long gone are the days when a vignette styled filmed would be crafted for the purposes...
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Misery’s Company: Gollings Squanders Dream Cast in Sole Directorial “Connecting Rooms” (1970) | Blu-ray Review
May 5, 2020For his one and only directorial effort, Franklin Gollings managed to finagle an impressive cast with...
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Criterion Collection: The Cranes are Flying (1957) | Blu-ray Review
April 21, 2020The only Soviet film to ever win the coveted Palme d’Or, Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are...
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Criterion Collection: Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | Blu-ray Review
April 7, 2020“I’ll never let you go,” Gene Tierney’s Ellen Berent coos to her husband/victim in the 1945...
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Criterion Collection: Bamboozled (2000) | Blu-ray Review
March 31, 2020That Spike Lee remains one of the true provocative soothsayers of cinema should come as no...
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Criterion Collection: Teorema (1968) | Blu-ray Review
March 31, 2020“Whatever the bourgeois do is wrong?” is a question posited in the flurried opening segment of...
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One Flew Over the Butcher Shop: Altman’s Klutzy Crafting of “Beyond Therapy” (1987) | Blu-ray Review
March 31, 2020The 1980s were a difficult period for Robert Altman, stumbling into the decade with two high...
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Caught in a Bad Romance: Clouzot’s Dire Love Story Resurrected “Manon” | Blu-ray Review
March 24, 2020Arrow Academy resurrects an early notable work from the filmography of Henri-Georges Clouzot with his 1949...
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Heist Season: Losey Gets Hard Boiled in Somber Neo Noir “The Criminal” | Blu-ray Review
March 24, 2020Sporting one of cinema’s most varied filmographies, American born Joseph Losey is one of the few...