EVIL DEAD — SHOCKTOBER!
For a movie that’s nothing if not a bloodbath, “Evil Dead” is as dry as the Sahara. That Sam Raimi…
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE — CLASSIC FILM PICK
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There’s Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange,” and then there’s everything else. Kubrick’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s complex literary satire…
MONSIEUR VERDOUX — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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Charlie Chaplin bought and adapted the story idea for his 1947 black comedy from Orson Welles, who wanted to cast…
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL — CLASSIC FILM PICK
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Roberto Benigni’s finest hour arrived in 1997 when the triple-threat writer/director/actor delved deep into Charlie Chaplin territory — see “The…
BLANCANIEVES
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More evidence — behind “The Artist” (2011) — that black-and-white silent films are still a viable storytelling approach; Pablo Berger’s…
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a prodigy, the most prolific member of the New German Cinema movement, which made its mark…
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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As much as Monte Hellman’s 1971 anti-narrative road movie will forever be inextricably associated with “Easy Rider” (1969), “Two-Lane Blacktop”…
THE WARRIORS — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Walter Hill’s vibrant 1979 adaptation of Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel — based loosely on an ancient Greek story called “Anabasis”…
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY — CLASSIC FILM PICK
The closing chapter of Sergio Leone’s iconic Spaghetti Western trilogy — following “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964) and “For a…
TOUCHING THE VOID — CLASSIC FILM PICK
The docudrama genre has rarely been so well served as it is by director Kevin Macdonald’s groundbreaking rendering of the…
56 UP
The most important documentary series ever put together marks its eighth milestone with worthwhile results. Director Michael Apted once again…
FUNNY GAMES — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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Austrian auteur Michael Haneke successfully mocks the American media’s penchant for violence by pushing the limits of cinematic sado-masochism. The…
CALIGULA — CLASSIC FILM PICK
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If ever there was a cinematic guide to Roman debauchery — real or imagined — “Caligula” is it. That this…
DJANGO UNCHAINED — CLASSIC FILM PICK
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You know from Tarantino’s audacious choice of intro music — the haunting theme song from Sergio Corbucci’s iconic 1966 Spaghetti…
IN COLD BLOOD — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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Screenwriter-director Richard Brooks’s faithful adaptation of Truman Capote’s innovative 1966 “non-fiction novel,” about a 1959 multiple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas,…
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES — CLASSIC FILM PICK
The first film to tackle alcoholism in a serious manner, “Days of Wine and Roses” is a tragic social drama…
THE HUMAN TORNADO – CLASSIC FILM PICK
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Rudy Ray Moore’s signature style of guerilla blaxploitation filmmaking is as defiant, ribald, and outrageously funny as anything in the…
BOUND — CLASSIC FILM PICK
1994 set a new standard for what audiences should expect from a neo-noir movie. Between Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and…
THE FIREMAN’S BALL — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
25 years before the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was declared a criminal organization and disbanded, director Milos Forman created a…
THE TURIN HORSE — CLASSIC FILM PICK
“The Turin Horse” is an existential provocation to its audience to consider the effect of man’s judgments against nature and…
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