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Review of The Big Lebowski (1998)

By Art S (1,002) on 30 Jan 2016

What a nonsensical slam-bang of a ride. Oddball fun from beginning to end. A classic well worth seeing…

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Review of Paths of Glory (1957)

By Art S (1,002) on 29 Jan 2016

Even before Kubrick was breaking grounds in cinema making by his stunning visuals and techniches, he was being radical with the underlying…

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Review of The Departed (2006)

By Art S (1,002) on 29 Jan 2016

The last time I watched Scorsese's remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002), it was pretty soon after I'd seen the original, which…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Art S (1,002) on 25 Jan 2016

Apparently based on a true story (although one would be hard-pressed to believe that anyone could be so stupid unless a serious break with…

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Review of Baraka (1992)

By Art S (1,002) on 24 Jan 2016

Ron Fricke was the cinematographer for the classic photography film, Koyaanisqatsi (1982), directed by Godfrey Reggio…

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Review of The Docks of New York (1928)

By Art S (1,002) on 24 Jan 2016

With an artistic and poetic approach to it, a wonderful romance, such lovable characters, terrific performances from its talented cast, deft…

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Review of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

By Art S (1,002) on 23 Jan 2016

Badges! We don't need to show you no stinking badges…

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Review of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

By Art S (1,002) on 19 Jan 2016

A slow semi-documentary critique of the kind of bureaucratic nightmare that can exist anywhere, and which reduces humans to inconveniences…

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Review of Mystery Street (1950)

By Art S (1,002) on 11 Jan 2016

Solid police procedural (shot with noir lighting by John Alton) starring Ricardo Montalban as a Cape Cod detective who needs the help of a…

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Review of The Mortal Storm (1940)

By Art S (1,002) on 09 Jan 2016

Perhaps this film is all the more unsettling because, despite its blistering attack on the authoritarianism of Hitler's government, no one…

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Review of The Virgin Suicides (2000)

By Art S (1,002) on 08 Jan 2016

Sofia Coppola was born in '71, so it isn't plausible that she has genuine memories of 1974 when this film takes place…

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Review of The Unholy Three (1925)

By Art S (1,002) on 06 Jan 2016

Can't decide if Lon Chaney is scarier looking covered in make-up and prosthetics, or without…

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Review of All Night Long (1962)

By Art S (1,002) on 05 Jan 2016

British director Basil Dearden shot this modern retelling of Othello in a one room set for the jazz set…

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Review of The Black Pirate (1926)

By Art S (1,002) on 04 Jan 2016

Doug Fairbanks leaps and bounds and slides down the rigging in this early two-strip Technicolor swashbuckler…

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Review of Listen Up Philip (2014)

By Art S (1,002) on 28 Dec 2015

I appreciate the intentions here (to create a black comedy about the creation of literature that is also novelistic in its form) but the end…

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Review of Stars in My Crown (1950)

By Art S (1,002) on 22 Dec 2015

At first, I thought this was just another John Ford-esque tale of small town American life in the inner West, but gradually its folksy charms…

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Review of The Locket (1946)

By Art S (1,002) on 21 Dec 2015

Laraine Day seems too good to be true...because she's a sociopath…

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Review of The Crimson Kimono (1959)

By Art S (1,002) on 19 Dec 2015

Interesting picture from writer/director Samuel Fuller about a Japanese LA police detective, James Shigeta (who modern audiences will know…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Art S (1,002) on 17 Dec 2015

The premise of this horror movie is pretty good - but it does make the monster strangely similar to a venereal disease…

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Review of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

By Art S (1,002) on 15 Dec 2015

Here we have brave feats of derring-do by Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) and his band of merry men (including Alan Hale as Little John and Eugene…

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