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Le Deuxi?me Souffle Best Price: $27.22 Jean-Pierre Melville's 1966 film, Le deuxi?me souffle, stars Lino Ventura (Classe Tous Risques)... | Le Doulos - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.21 To dramatize gangsters because of some fictitious "code"...to romanticize them by... | Vampyr - Criterion Collection Best Price: $23.39 Carl Dreyer is a film-maker's film-maker. His films resonate, and are imbued not just with... | An Autumn Afternoon - Criterion Collection Best Price: $18.86 This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
The film's Japanese... | Earrings of Madame de... Best Price: $27.24 This is one of the most lovely, classic French films ever made. Beautifully filmed and... |
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La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition) Best Price: $21.68 I always been against old movies as they demonstrate freedom of speech didnt start till 21... | The African Queen [IMPORT] Best Price: $10.21 'The African Queen' is an acknowledged classic of the first order.
How does one review... | Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition) Best Price: $16.14 This is by far my favorite Dracula movie. It was not copyrighted and was ordered to be... | M - 2 Disc Special Edition - Criterion Collection Best Price: $23.99 Fritz Lang's great 1931 film M is an important film, and for anyone who collects classic films,... | The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection Best Price: $33.49 I recently saw this movie and for me it has some interesting features but is far from being the... |
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La Ronde Best Price: $27.21 Having seen the movie when it was first released, I was thrilled to find it available as a DVD.... | 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection Best Price: $19.90 8? is suffused with the fictive childhood memories of Fellini's onscreen doppelganger, Guido... | M. Hulot's Holiday - Criterion Collection Best Price: $20.27 Not much dialogue, but you don't need it. Just enjoy the idiosyncrasies of human nature and... | Mon Oncle - Criterion Collection Best Price: $21.44 Expertise a must***
Art House and International Cinema are different than mainstream films.
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Le Plaisir Best Price: $27.24 (I can't resist) LE PLAISIR is a pleasure. It's brilliant.
Director Max Ophuls transferred 3... | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Best Price: $12.69 Genevi?ve (Catherine Denevue) and her mother (Anne Vernon) live above their shop called The... | Le Samourai - Criterion Collection Best Price: $19.92 Fine transfer of one of Melville's ganster movies. Alain Delon draws his gun faster than the... | Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection) Best Price: $27.95 Despite this movie's strong placement in the annals of those deemed "classics", I was... | The Leopard - Criterion Collection Best Price: $33.84 "We were the Leopards, the Lions, those who'll take our place will be little jackals,... |
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Breathless - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.22 What to write? If you know of the director, you surely own this. If not, and you're interested... | Diabolique (Criterion Collection Spine #35) Best Price: $19.99 The next time you need a film that totally enthralls you, see Les Diaboliques. I had heard so... | Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection Best Price: $20.30 This movie has long been among my favorites. Had it been in English it would get 5 stars. It is... | Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.22 Akira Kurosawa's black and white 1957 film Throne of Blood (Kumonosu J?- literally Spider-Web's... | Frankenstein Conquers the World / Frankenstein Vs. Baragon Best Price: $12.23 Frankenstein vs. Baragon is a good sci-fi monster movie that is very entertaining and is worth... |
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The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection Best Price: $24.94 Simple, cutting, to the point; Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" is a movie with a... | The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection Spine #62) Best Price: $27.22 I saw The Passion of Joan of Arc first in a fuzzy video created by silent film buffs years ago. ... | Rashomon - Criterion Collection Best Price: $21.27 Akira Kurosawa had been a filmmaker for almost a decade, since his 1943 debut film Sugata... | The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection Best Price: $14.95 Those film viewers who equate foreign films with pretense need to sit down for a couple of hours... | The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection Best Price: $20.30 The 400 Blows is a film that, many say, predated Elia Kazan's East of Eden. The 400 Blows came... |
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Breathless Best Price: $12.37 What to write? If you know of the director, you surely own this. If not, and you're interested... | Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.22 I have read so many conflicting things about "Children of Paradise," including that it... | Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition) Best Price: $24.50 It's like a Fairy Tale come to life. One of the films I watch over and over. | Army of Shadows - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.21 For me, "Army of Shadows" was a great film that, if anything, is under-rated. The... | Six in Paris Best Price: $19.32 Two decades before Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You), six celebrated French New Wave... |
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Monsieur Vincent Best Price: $11.81 No scratches, this is a brilliantly restored clean copy! Ignore the caveats from other reviews... | Playtime - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.21 Tati's giant spectacle, shot in 70mm, on a fake city, Tativille. built for the movie. For all... | Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection Best Price: $16.49 I don't know why this is true, but they do. We owe the birth of the horror film genre in the... | Belle de Jour Best Price: $10.96 There was something about the 1960s that brought out a playfulness in filmmakers which allowed... | Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.22 There are many roads to greatness. This is a notion that I have always held to be true. No... |
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Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection Best Price: $25.96 Before Federico Fellini became the audacious and surrealistic film auteur of the 1960s he was a... | L'Avventura - Criterion Collection Best Price: $11.75 Some films that are labeled classics, or great films, are not even good films. Jean-Luc Godard's... | Kwaidan - Criterion Collection Best Price: $19.98 I watched this film on TCM weeks ago and its is still with me. There are four stories of the... | Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection Best Price: $26.98 This is one of the bonafide classics of cinema. Thus, I, a movie buff, feel obligated to love... | Ikiru - Criterion Collection Best Price: $19.00 This is probably the greatest film about life and what it means to live. Watanabe is suffering... |
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Pandora's Box - Criterion Collection Best Price: $25.04 It was a dream come true to find this movie in the Criterion Collection. Pandorax Box is a... | Un Chien Andalou Best Price: $10.35 Chien Andalou is a classic Surrealist video from 1929 put together by Luis Bunuel and Salvator... | Ugetsu - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.08 This is a great story of a man who dreams of being a great man of wealth and position in 15th... | Rififi - Criterion Collection Best Price: $20.28 If Dassen's political views had been, say, right wing, would any of the "fillum"... | La Strada - Criterion Collection Best Price: $24.84 Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's 1954 black and white film La Strada (The Road) is one of... |
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Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection Best Price: $25.00 Fete of Death
"Elevator to the Gallows" is a deliberately paced outstanding example... | Contempt - Criterion Collection Best Price: $25.99 Of the films I've seen so far of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, his best is 1963's... | Andrei Rublev (Criterion Collection Spine #34) Best Price: $27.22 I watched this movie two days ago and can't stop thinking about it. It is also the first... | The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection Best Price: $23.91 French filmmaker Jean Renoir's 1939 black and white classic, The Rules Of The Game (La R?gle Du... | The Bicycle Thief Best Price: $13.94 Despite this movie's strong placement in the annals of those deemed "classics", I was... |
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Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection Best Price: $26.99 It is certainly fair to say that much of Igmar Bergman's work (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and... | The Threepenny Opera - Criterion Collection Best Price: $27.22 "The Threepenny Opera" (Die 3groschenoper")
A Classic?
Amos Lassen
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