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Review of Le Doulos (1962)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 03 Jun 2004

Melville's complete absorption of American crime movies is on full display in Le Doulos, but the film never feels like a French version of…

Review of Dog Days (2001)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 14 May 2004

Stylistically void, intellectually vapid, narratively coarse, and exploitative of its actors in the worst possible way, the film is an abject…

Review of The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 27 Mar 2004

The Grapes of Wrath, whether in novel or movie form, remains a shockingly potent work of social criticism to this day…

Review of Morvern Callar (2002)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 03 Mar 2004

Morvern Callar is assured and confidently-made, even as the emotions of the title character seem brittle and crystalline…

Review of Peyton Place (1957)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 20 Feb 2004

Though a contemporary audience would hardly find Peyton Place shocking today, what is intriguing is that audiences in 1957 would not have found…

Review of Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 21 Jul 2003

A good script, but it should have been filmed with the woman who made it famous on the stage, Agnes Moorehead…

Review of Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 19 Jul 2003

The dialogue is spare, spans of silence run for minutes, the tense atmosphere is punctuated by unexpected eruptions of violence, and the film…

Review of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 19 Jul 2003

This strange film--a romantic fable, wholly fictitious yet rooted in historically accurate minutiae--is a pleasure…

Review of Grey Gardens (1976)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 17 Jul 2003

At first blush, the film may seem like an invitation to mockery, but the more one uncovers of the vast history of the Beales at Grey Gardens,…

Review of Grey Gardens (2009)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 17 Jul 2003

At first blush, the film may seem like an invitation to mockery, but the more one uncovers of the vast history of the Beales at Grey Gardens,…

Review of The Song of Bernadette (1943)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 08 Jul 2003

The Song of Bernadette is not a great film, but it is a very good film…

Review of Female (1933)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 27 May 2003

Female is more than just a museum piece from that short era after the introduction of sound and before the enforcement of the Hays Code; it's…

Review of Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 24 May 2003

Despite its brief 75-minute duration and its compression of events, the film tells the story far more effectively than Francis Ford Coppola's…

Review of Katzelmacher (1969)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 17 May 2003

For those looking to figure out what the hell Fassbinder was all about, this is an excellent starting point…

Review of Louisiana Story (1948)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 13 May 2003

the film has some of the most beautiful images I've ever seen in a movie yet, at the same time, some of the clunkiest, most awkwardly staged…

Review of Man of Aran (1934)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 11 May 2003

Robert Flaherty's film, Man of Aran, follows a similar formula as his Nanook of the North, and probably includes just as much fakery. I…

Review of An Affair to Remember (1957)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 03 Apr 2003

In spite of the flaws and could-have-beens, there is no denying that the final scene of the movie is very touching, albeit in an utterly mawkish…

Review of ¿Quién diablos es Juliette? (1997)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 03 Apr 2003

The film took nearly two years to complete, and it's amazing, in consideration of its subject and content, that the film has any coherence at all…

Review of I Want to Live! (1958)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 03 Apr 2003

Director Wise is content to let Hayward take the film in her teeth from the moment she appears in the film and not let it go until she collapses…

Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

By Matt Bailey (45) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 03 Apr 2003

The film is very good at showing how effortlessly misunderstandings can develop between ordinary people and between nations and how easily…

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