Dec 09, 2014
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The Night Porter‘s subject matter—a romantic relationship between a camp survivor and one of her Nazi oppressors—was controversial in 1974, and feels just as taboo today.
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Nov 21, 2014
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It Happened One Night was in many ways a predecessor to the modern romantic comedy, and its dynamics will still feel familiar to the current-day viewer.
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Nov 17, 2014
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Weird Al Yankovic
Shout! Factory give “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF a proper deluxe treatment befitting the film’s quarter-centennial.
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Nov 10, 2014
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Fresh off the over-the-top zombie classic Re-Animator but before he could move on to his follow-up Lovecraft adaption, From Beyond, Stuart Gordon was tabbed to helm a movie about killer dolls.
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Nov 03, 2014
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Shohei Imamura’s unflinching serial killer film was ahead the curve when it arrived in 1979.
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Oct 27, 2014
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While Nightbreed still isn’t a great film—even in this new director’s cut—Scream Factory should be lauded for allowing Barker to finally release his favored version.
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Oct 17, 2014
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Sex Pistols - The TV Tapes serves as a visual timeline of the seminal UK punk act.
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Oct 14, 2014
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“We were Hüsker fucking Dü,” says that band’s former drummer at the start of Every Everything, knowing full well that the influential Minnesota trio was entirely worthy of the bravado.
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Oct 13, 2014
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With 1979’s All That Jazz, director/choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on the most incredible subject in his universe: himself. From a screenplay he co-wrote with Robert Alan Aurthur, Fosse focuses on a period in which he furiously worked to juggle choreography for the Broadway musical Chicago while editing Lenny, the 1974 film he directed about the controversial comedian
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Oct 10, 2014
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Issue #51 - September/October 2014 - alt-J
It’s hard to describe Pedro Almodóvar’s 1990-released Spanish romantic-absurdity concisely, nearly as hard as it is to look away from the film. Shot with passion and intensity by José Luis Alcaine, Almodóvar has fun genre-blending while telling the bizarre tale of a young actress (Victoria Abril) who falls in love with the man (Antonio Banderas as a former mental asylum patient) who kidnapped her.
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