In this seriocomic drama, released 30 years ago this month, both Robert De Niro and Bill Murray tinkered with their established personas in ways that would re-direct their careers.
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You will believe a man can be an infant in the delightful cult oddity ‘The Baby,’ released 50 years ago this week.
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With the Oscars around the corner, let’s go back twenty years, when Miramax basically ruled the Academy Awards – and Harvey was determined to get another Best Picture win.
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The recently departed composer’s ability to set a mood through memorable melodies and canny vocal arrangements added to the timelessness and relatability of beloved feature films, while elevating some of the tackier basic-cable fare of the 1980s and beyond.
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As ‘History of the World, Part II’ debuts on Hulu, we look back at Mel Brooks’s original film, which is a wonderfully strange and funny tale told at the expense of history’s sacred cows.
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Jean Cocteau’s 1946 adaptation of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is a luminous work, with edges that its subsequent versions have sadly sanded down.
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The 60-year-old “High and Low” proves Akira Kurosawa was just as adept at crafting contemporary stories as he was samurai epics.
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Alan Rudolph’s 1978 character study, long unavailable for home viewing, is now streaming on Amazon Prime – and it’s a sometimes puzzling and utterly scathing work.
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Quentin Tarantino’s book “Cinema Speculation” got us nostalgic for that time, back in the late ‘90s, when Miramax just let him release whatever old exploitation oddities he felt like.
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Cale’s scores offer some insight into the development of his ideas, and should be viewed as an even more experimental facet of a peripatetic and engaging career.
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With ‘Possession’ finally available to stream, let’s take a look back at director Andrzej Zulawski’s early breakout film, a dark melodrama with its own cult following.
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The Blu-ray release (and re-release) of seven ’60s and ’70s titles from the French New Wave master effectively rebut his recent criticisms from the world’s foremost movie geek.
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