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Review: The White Dawn
[Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] At times one feels that the elemental motions induced by the instinct to survive almost dictate a pace of their own in this movie about the...
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Review: Badlands
[Originally published in Movietone News 33, July 1974] Art, because it creates its own reality, can’t be self-deluding, no matter how “unreal” it may seem. What it can do is distort reality by...
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Review: Dillinger
[Originally published in Movietone News 24, July-August 1973] That our final glimpse of John Dillinger should be out of focus is appropriate. Dillinger promised to be an exciting directorial debut for...
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Blu-ray: ‘Dillinger’ by Milius
John Dillinger was the most notorious of the Depression-era gangsters and his exploits (and attendant newspaper coverage) made him a romantic anti-hero to many of the folks who felt betrayed by the...
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Film critics Bruce Reid, Richard T. Jameson, and Robert Horton discuss the careers and legacies of actor Warren Oates and director Hector Babenco, praise Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Our Little Sister (2016),...
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Blu-ray: ‘Private Property’ rediscovered and restored
Private Property (Cinelicious, Blu-ray+DVD) – Put this 1960 film in the “Lost and Found” category. The directorial debut by Leslie Stevens, a playwright and screenwriter and protégé of Orson Welles,...
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Review: Kid Blue
[Originally published in Movietone News 26, October 1973] Kid Blue, completed more than a year ago, enjoyed a belated and unsuccessful release and arrived in the Jet City even later. Reportedly...
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Review: The Thief Who Came to Dinner
[Originally published in Movietone News 23, May-June 1973] The spectre of Blake Edwards hangs over The Thief Who Came to Dinner because two of his frequent collaborators worked on it and because...
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