The good news is that there's finally now an official DVD of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, and as the screen grab above attests, it's taken from a very nice print. But…
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Tomorrow, Zeitgeist releases a new, improved domestic DVD of Olivier Assayas' 1996 Irma Vep, an exhilarating, sometimes acid comedy about movies and moviemaking, in which Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung stars…
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A bad weekend for some distinctively lovely women of film, and their fans. Nina FochNot a day after the death of Nina Foch, the glamourous Netherlands-born star of My Name…
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As dramatic as Klaatu's descent from his spaceship is in Robert Wise' 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still is, I'm always even more struck by the alien's appearance at…
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From Werewolf of London, 1935I never met the man who coined the term "sci-fi" and founded and edited the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, but it's safe to say that…
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T.J. Lowther in A Perfect World, Eastwood, 1993My friend Joseph Failla hasn't seen Gran Torino yet, but from what he knows about it he infers a thematic continutiy that I…
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