Checking out the recently issued Blu-ray disc of Clint Eastwood's 1977 The Gauntlet (a nice disc, by the way, but nothing to write home about; also note that all the…
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From The Passionate Friends, 1949 Inspired by Film Forum's upcoming David Lean retrospective, I take down itv's excellent Region 2 box "The David Lean Collection" from the shelf, and review/preview…
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To start with a random thought: Warner Home Video's new DVDs of How The West Was Won can be taken as proof that there are more, or louder, Cinerama fans…
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Around the midpoint of Jean Negulsco's 1948 Road House (just given an exemplary DVD release by Fox), Ida Lupino's Lily Stevens, a saloon singer of such affectlessness of voice as…
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Not a Hitchcock masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination...but not necessarily the nadir Hitch regarded it as, either. For the viewer, it helps to be a little enamored (as…
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Welcome to the world of Miklos Jancso's 1966 film—a 19th-century Hungarian prison camp. Look familiar? In my report for The Auteurs' Notebook, I take a slight plus-ca-change approach. This is…
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