| | | Ultra-stylish surreal musical directed by erstwhile music video maestro Julien Temple (EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY) One of the best post-modern musical films. This musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London was way... (see full description) |
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| | | Directed by Philip Haas. An sumptuous, beguiling tale of incest and perverse sexual mores in the Victorian era. William, a young scientist, is introduced into the family Alabaster by reverend Alabaster who is also fascinated by insects. W... (see full description) |
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| | | Directed by Bill Eagles. Engaging and blackly comical vehicle for preternaturally sexy and always appealing actress Rachel Weisz. "Petula (Weisz) and Dorothy (Susan Lynch) are a couple of tough broads living in Glasgow. Their gangster boyfr... (see full description) |
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| | | Brian De Palma's over-the-top homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW-UP (1966), Francis Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and a bunch of other paranoid films like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and THE PARALLAX VIEW. De Palma had a little ensemble comp... (see full description) |
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| | | Despite being one of the most bizarre, audacious and perverted films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, this was the second most critically acclaimed film of the 1980s (after only RAGING BULL) We are all used to David Lynch now and ... (see full description) |
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| | | Martin Scorsese's big-movie debut, made one year before MEAN STREETS. Roger Corman had one hell of an eye for talent, launching the directorial careers of Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard and some others I'm not recalling. (And, ... (see full description) |
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| | | Effective early horror from mad-genius Croneneberg; his first film with name stars and arguably the best and most personal of the early films. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estra... (see full description) |
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| | | 25th anniversary edition of the definitive high school angst/horror film. When the AFI selected their 100 greatest American movies there were six 1976 movies on the ballot, including four *WOW* pictures: ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, CARRIE, NET... (see full description) |
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| | | Two escaped convicts go on a robbery and rape spree. The husband of one of their victims arms himself and goes looking for them Barbara Mills (Gabriella, Touch of Sweden), Linda York (Dicktator, Love Garden), Michael Stearns, Robert Lott,... (see full description) |
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| | | Likeable mix of MAD MAX and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. It's your basic post-apocalyptic road movie action-romance. The basic romantic comedy road-movie plot: An engaged man or woman it thrown in with an exotic member of the opposite sex who i... (see full description) |
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| | | Funny how a momentary image can overwhelm our memory of a film. In BASIC INSTINCT, it's Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs. In CHINA MOON it's Madeline Stowe in a small boat at night impatiently pulling off her dress and diving into the black... (see full description) |
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| | | One of the great blaxploitation films, directed by Jack Hill (SWITCHBLADE SISTERS), a singularly under-rated director. The guy made entertaining movies, and if that was easy everyone would be doing it! Emergency room nurse Coffy is on a ... (see full description) |
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| | | The first uncensored home video version of this film. Runs a full 104 minutes and is mastered from the original negative, so the picture is gorgeous. Now here's something different… right after 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY made him a star, Kier D... (see full description) |
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| | | Part of Pasolinis "Trilogy of Life" (Will there ever be new US editions of the others?) Hard to overstate the impact this taboo-busting film had. Though somewhat tamer than Pasolini's following efforts, this was shocking in 1970, and "decam... (see full description) |
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| | | "Malcom Evans leads his archaeological expedition into the Valley of Temples. His former student, Liza Harris, is drawn to the remains of a 16th Century convent and its grisly legend of crucifixion. The local villagers rise to protect the s... (see full description) |
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| | | Hauntingly sexy B-movie with A-movie quality production values. DREAM LOVER is an average "erotic thriller" made more than merely average by James Spader and Mädchen Amick (SLEEPWALKERS, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME). Spader is the go-to a... (see full description) |
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| | | Imitation does not imply inferiority... This glossy homage to Gialli, and specifically to Argento gialli like "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage," is far superior to most real Italian giallo films. What sets this above is the combination of... (see full description) |
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| | | This is my kind of movie; sexy, brilliant and so weird you can't figure how it got made. David O. Selznick may have peaked too soon, never gave up on trying to top his triumph with Gone With The Wind. His best effort was this 1946 sprawling... (see full description) |
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| | | "A few years ago in Dunwich a half-witted girl bore illegitimate twins. One of them was almost human!" Here's the ultimate cheap-thrills selling point: Sandra Dee nudity! But if anyone was going to play the innocent pawn in a diabolical s... (see full description) |
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| | | Unusually frank chick flick. On average, women seem to like words more than men—both in a relationship and in bed. So maybe it's just because I'm a guy, but the constant no-holds-barred dialogue had me blushing for some reason. (Did I felt ... (see full description) |
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| | | I didn't expect director Peter Weir to ever top YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY so this was a great late career surprise. Most movies I adore are in the "you love 'em or hate 'em" category, and the intensity of cold, frightening beauty here is a... (see full description) |
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| | | There is nothing like FLESH+BLOOD. It's a big-budget, gorgeous looking historical epic with major stars, but made with the lurid sensibilities of a sleazy Italian exploitation movie. Paul Verhoeven has never been shy about sexual nudity (SH... (see full description) |
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| | | She's brown sugar and spice…and if you don't watch it, she'll put you on ice! Delivering a performance worthy of "the Queen of the genre" (Los Angeles Times), Grier portrays one of the screen's... (see full description) |
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| | | Handsomely crafted thriller that didn't make much money but was Roman Polanski's best reviewed film of the 1980s. Harrison Ford stars as Richard Walker, an American doctor who has come to Paris, where he's scheduled to deliver a paper to ... (see full description) |
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| | | A four star comedy of manners in the form of a 1930s murder mystery. No car chases or explosions—it's mostly servants serving meals and rich people eating them—but it's "on" every minute. (Reminds me of ALL ABOUT EVE in that way.) I'm glad ... (see full description) |
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