Mademoiselle
(2001. NOT RATED. SYKRONIZED USA)
Synkronized USA is a terrific Florida company that specializes in issuing previously unreleased French films. Any Synkronized title is worth strong considera...
Friday , May 09, 2008
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The Living End
(1992. NOT RATED. STRAND RELEASING)
If you remember Gregg Araki‘s breakthrough film, The Living End, you may think it an emblematic prisoner of another time, largely because of how cultural a...
Friday , May 09, 2008
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The British Empire in Color
(2002. NOT RATED. ACORN MEDIA)
There is a scene early on in the magnificent three-part documentary The British Empire in Color depicting the wedding of an Indian prince during the final years...
Friday , May 09, 2008
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CHARLIE WILSON‘S WAR
A heavyweight cast (Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams) and crew (director Mike Nichols, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin) propel this often-funny “based on a true story” fil...
Saturday , May 03, 2008
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CLOVERFIELD
Fitting into the subgenre of movies about New York City, specifically Manhattan, being destroyed by monsters, tidal waves, aliens and viruses (see King Kong, the 1998 Godzilla, The Day After T...
Saturday , May 03, 2008
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Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Two
I wouldn‘t presume to guess the pivotal event that led to the transformation, but somewhere in the past 10 years a change of consciousness has occurred with regard to the film career of actres...
Friday , April 25, 2008
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Picture Snatcher
Previously obscure James Cagney films are coming into release, none more obscure than Picture Snatcher, a rare 1933 film about a crook who goes straight, but not too straight – he goes to work...
Friday , April 25, 2008
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The ultimate escapist fare
In the early years of the 20th century, Harry Houdini was larger than life. He was the world‘s best-known escape artist, the “king of handcuffs,” the No. 1 draw in vaudeville and, according to...
Friday , April 18, 2008
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Fortysomething
(2003. NOT RATED. ACORN MEDIA. TWO DISCS.)
Sometimes American TV has successfully transferred British sitcoms to the colonies, as in the rebirth of Till Death Do Us Part as All in the Family....
Friday , April 11, 2008
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