For a director who’s experienced great popular success, Mamoru Oshii is a remarkably eccentric artist. He’s lamented the fact that his live-actions films have been cursed to relative obscurity. But his first one, The Red Spectacles, is seeing a new re-release, following a crowd-funded restoration. Made in 1987, it weaves influences from Franz Kafka, Seijun […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is just as hard to watch as it was half a century ago, but it’s even more necessary today.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Animal Tales of Christmas Magic,’ ‘Fragilé,’ ‘SuperClaus,’ ‘12 Toys of Christmas,’ and more direct-to-video holiday fare.
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“Walk Hard” was a diss track in cinematic form that dismantles the script of “Walk the Line” so thoroughly that it might as well be a beat-for-beat remake
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Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just straight-up destroyed by Harvey Weinstein during his reign as one of the most powerful studio chiefs in Hollywood. Since the director’s cut of Shall We Dance? is coming to Blu-ray this month, let’s revisit […]
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Released 45 years ago this week, Lewis Teague’s witty and well-crafted animal-attack thriller is far more than a “Jaws” rip-off.
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Noah Baumbach’s latest boasts wonderful performances from an all-star cast, but can’t quite decide what it wants to be.
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Zhang Yimou’s début kicked off a legendary partnership with actress Gong Li, and signaled the beginning of a new era of Chinese cinema.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and they’re not necessarily the most overtly surreal ones: A blind man’s stare-down with a rooster after he has been knocked to the ground. A pigeon being rubbed on a sick woman’s back. A legless […]
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In honor of the actor’s 100th birthday this week, we look back at a role that offered him the rare chance to underplay his brash persona.
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Cyndi Lauper’s willingness to experiment in different media has played a role in her career-long ubiquity…including a side hustle as a character actress.
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