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Oct 26, 1985
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Franc Roddam's 1979 film of the Who's rock opera aligns sociological observation and romantic fantasy to create an extravagant, involving teenpic with a responsible intellectual grounding.
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Mar 18, 2011
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Hard-core formalist filmmaking from Italy—grandly pictorial, completely wordless, and resolutely thematic in its development of four linked episodes about death, decay, and generation.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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May 30, 1985
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Erich von Stroheim's 1928 film was the last that he would be allowed to sign, yet it, too, survives only in a fragmentary version.
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Oct 26, 1985
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John Ford's 1952 Oscar winner is a tribute to an Ireland that exists only in the imaginations of songwriters and poets like Ford, a fairy green place where people really do say "faith and begorrah."
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- by Don Druker
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Tags: Drama
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Dec 11, 2000
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Personally, I find the notion of a politically correct Marquis de Sade ridiculous enough to be hilarious, but this didn't prevent me from thoroughly enjoying Philip Kaufman's silly romp, adapted by Doug Wright from his own play.
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