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Feb 26, 2024

Director Jacques Becker's belle epoque period drama about gangsters sets their lives on such a delicate balance between honor death that the eponymous pretty blonde is all it takes to bring it crashing down.  Would you say a "love quadrangle" or a "love square"?

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Feb 19, 2024

Indie director Melvin van Peebles’ one film for Columbia Pictures pointedly slams against the dictates and standards of studio filmmaking with his Godfrey Cambridge-starring vehicle about a white bigot who wakes up black and finds himself in a world that no longer tolerates his existence.

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Feb 12, 2024

Just in time for February: it's... Random Acts of Cinema's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Take me away from all of these possessives.

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Feb 5, 2024

An all-star who’s-who of mid-century Italian comedy (we assume) unite for a picture of staggering proportions!  Our boys stumble and bumble their way through a meticulously planned robbery and end up stealing… our hearts.  Director Mario Monicelli gives the world one of the great prototypes of the...