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Bringing Up Baby

Studio: The Criterion Collection

Sep 07, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Arguably the apex of the screwball sub-genre that swept American comedies in the 1930s and early 1940s, Bringing Up Baby is also a high water mark in the careers of stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

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The Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1

Studio: Kino Lorber

Sep 02, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Jacobs’ short collaborations with larger-than-life filmmaker/proto-performance artist Jack Smith, collected on this set, are goofy and fun to watch even as they’re colored with a patina of world-weary melancholy.

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One Crazy Summer

Studio: Warner Archive

Aug 31, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

One Crazy Summer (1986) was director Savage Steve Holland’s follow-up to his hit Better Off Dead (1985), reuniting him with the prior film’s teen star, John Cusack.

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Last Train from Gun Hill

Studio: Paramount Presents

Aug 26, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Last Train from Gun Hill was something of a spiritual sequel to the 1957 film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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Original Cast Album: “Company”

Studio: The Criterion Collection

Aug 24, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Simplicity is key in Company.

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Flight to Mars

Studio: The Film Detective

Aug 19, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Arrival, this ain’t.

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After Life

Studio: The Criterion Collection

Aug 17, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Set over one week, After Life takes place at one facility (of many) that humans go to after their death.

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Rancho Deluxe

Studio: Fun City Editions

Aug 12, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

If there’s any one word to describe the feel of Rancho Deluxe (1975), it’s “casual.”

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The Daydreamer

Studio: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Aug 10, 2021 DVDs Web Exclusive

Hot off the success of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Rankin/Bass productions attempted to channel a similar celebrity-voiced, stop motion-animated formula away from television sets and onto the big screen with The Daydreamer (1966), a live action/animation hybrid overflowing with mid-Sixties star power.

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