"Best film news in 80 years," my friend Joseph Failla notes of the report that a complete version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, long only available in a substantially truncated multi-source…
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You know, the thing about owning a good-quality flatscreen plasma television is, you'll watch pretty much any damn thing on it, particularly if it's in high definition. Sigh.
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Barbara Stanwyck in Anthony Mann's 1950 The Furies, a top-knotch psychological Western just recently released on disc by The Criterion Collection. It's very strong stuff but suffers a bit from…
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This BFI two-disc set is quite the nifty package for the would-be Preminger completist who's not overly troubled by the varied vicissitudes of the current global economic situation. Error is…
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James McAvoy, no longer "ordinary and pathetic," in Wanted. I understand one usually has to wait for the third occurrence of something in order to speculate about that something becoming…
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