Thursday, July 3, 2025

KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA / RAPITO (2023)

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Fine as film, even more fascinating as a slice of Italian history, Marco Bellocchio ‘brings to the screen’ (as film trailers used to say on ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

POT O’ GOLD (1941)

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James Stewart made three Frank Capra films; many more simply Capra-esque.  This is one of them.  His last release before WWII took him off t...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

BARDEJOV (2024)

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From the personal memories of its producer, Emil A. Fish, seven when he witnessed the events shown (now in his 80s, this his sole involvemen...
Monday, June 30, 2025

SISTERS (1972)

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Perhaps we’ll hold off on revisiting early Brian De Palma for a bit.  Not doing him (or me) any favors.*  This jokey horror number about a p...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

STREET OF CHANCE (1930)

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Debonaire & ironic, perfect in any mode, mood or genre (comedy, period drama, romance, even villainy in his early silents), William Powe...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

DEPARTMENT Q THE ABSENT ONE / FASANDRÆBERNE (2016)

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Currently streaming on NetFlix as DEPT. Q, the Scots-set/English-language redo of this series has a glamorously distressed Matthew Goode lea...
Friday, June 27, 2025

DERSU UZALA (1975)

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After a career threatening triple blow (latest film on Tokyo have-nots, DODES'KA-DEN/’70, not just rejected, but killing his new Directo...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

FIRST TO FIGHT (1967)

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Useful in showing just how cluelessly out-of-touch major studios had become by the 1960s (especially on mid-list releases), not good for muc...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

REMEMBER (2015)

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Effective, gimmicky, clever (too clever?), Atom Egoyan’s Holocaust-haunted movie, from an original screenplay by Benjamin August, plays like...