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'SNL,' 'Robin Hood,' 'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,' and more

Louise Brooks. Berlin. The Twenties.

The first of three collaborations between Carol Reed and Graham Greene

"Oh, the thrill of identifying unknown films!"

The Kieslowski-Stuhr collaboration turns a tale about the bond between a man and his beast into an allegory of fiercest humanity

Operating with limited resources, Steev Hise interviews mothers, activists, scholars, and writers to paint the portrait of a city in a state of severe crisis

These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them

So how does it hold up, the arch back-and-forth of these kids treading water in dead-end video-store gigs and oddly affecting affairs with underage girls?

The end of an era on six discs

John Wayne has been called many things, but "beautiful" isn't often one of them

As much codas to childhood as preludes to manhood, each of these films have a different cross to bear

On January 31, 1971, more than 125 Vietnam veterans gathered in a conference room at a Howard Johnson's in Detroit for a reckoning

The quintessential musical for sentimental cynics

'That film was taken away from me completely, and was totally destroyed in the cutting,' Orson Welles lamented. 'That was the real disaster of my life.'

If comedy is a dish best served black, Kind Hearts and Coronets is beluga caviar marinated in its own ink.

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

Reacquaint yourself with one Paul Walker, the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness

How Raymond Chandler's coffee can became Stephen J. Cannell's cookie jar, with James Garner as the constant

Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing

As shape-shifting, lavender-scented 'regulator' Robert E. Lee Clayton, Marlon Brando delivers the most self-indulgent performance of his career, and that's saying a lot

Musicians make uneasy actors. With his directorial debut, 1970's 'Performance,' Nicolas Roeg characteristically tossed convention out the hotel window by casting Mick Jagger as one of the leads. He would follow up with David Bowie and Art Garfunkel.

The 1993 film by writer and director Mike Leigh, newly released by Criterion, is a small masterpiece of blighted English negativity: like little body with a corrosive heart

'People aren't as evil-minded as they were when you were a soldier, Papa,' purrs 14-year-old Emmy (Diana Lynn) to her dimly suspicious father (William Demarest), though certainly she must know better

'Poor Bela,' Boris Karloff once lamented to an interviewer who asked him about his old rival. 'He was his own worst enemy.'

Two from Seijun Suzuki