Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge (movie 1924) review: Semi-historical Fritz Lang epic fantasy is a cinematic masterpiece. Paul Richter stars.
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Un Flic (movie 1972) review: Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve deliver first-rate performances in this excellent Jean-Pierre Melville neo-noir. Richard Crenna costars.
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Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils Ken Russell, the director of Women in Love, The Boy Friend, and Altered States, died Sunday, Nov. 27, at the age of 84. Coincidentally,…
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Silent era superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge at Norma’s Santa Monica beach house. Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are the stars of two recent Kino International releases. Talmadges who? Well,…
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Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi horror classics “With a few exceptions,” wrote Andrew Sarris in You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, “The Bride of Frankenstein represented the last gasp of the…
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Griffith Movies: Mandatory Viewing + Excellent Carol Dempster and the American Kay Hammond while Orson Welles remembers W.C. Fields.
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Griffith Cinema: Abraham Lincoln Biopic and the dangers of alcoholism + climactic ice-floe river rescue honoring father of American film.
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The Thin Man movies: Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man Goes Home. ‘The Thin Man’ movies on DVD: William Powell & Myrna Loy The Thin Man movies, starring…
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Hollywood Rebels: James Dean ca. 1955. Hollywood Rebels’ movies on DVD: James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ & Steve McQueen in ‘Bullitt’ James Dean’s cult status was surely not…
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Joan Crawford young and entrepreneurial in Mildred Pierce. Joan Crawford young & middle-aged on DVD Joan Crawford, unfairly misremembered as a maternal ogress with a wire-hanger fixation, was actually one…
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Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.
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Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits - comedies and musicals - and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.
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Starring Robert Mitchum, William A. Wellman’s 1954 cult classic Track of the Cat is one of five new DVDs of long-unseen movies with a little-known John Wayne connection.
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Mel Gibson’s contentious Jesus movie The Passion of the Christ has become a top - but not the actual no. 1 - DVD seller in the United States. Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci star.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner - The Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD Latest DVD blockbuster: New Moon beating original Twilight Say what you will about the box office performances…
The Penalty (movie 1920) review: Man of a Thousand Faces Lon Chaney delivers another phenomenally creepy portrayal in Wallace Worsley’s top-notch revenge thriller.
The WWII-era Katyn massacre is the topic of Andrzej Wajda’s next project + Criterion’s ‘3 War Films’ DVD includes the classic Ashes and Diamonds.
The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster The High and the Mighty.