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Oct 26, 1985
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A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains.
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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Drama
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Jun 24, 1985
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If you can push past the flag-waving, this Warner Brothers effort from 1942 is a superior entry in a dubious genre, the musical biography.
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Nov 7, 2003
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Stuck in a desolate military outpost on the Israeli-Lebanese border, a motley assortment of Israeli army reservists try to make the best of a bleak situation by blowing off their awful chores and flirting with two visiting female soldiers.
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Oct 26, 1985
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One might argue for Lola (1960), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), or the lesser-known Une Chambre en Ville (1982) as Jacques Demy's greatest feature.
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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Musical
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Aug 15, 1985
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Abraham Lincoln was one of John Ford's personal icons, recurring in film after film, but this is his only appearance as a central character—a young, idealistic, but shrewd Springfield lawyer played by Henry Fonda (in what may be his finest performance).
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Sep 15, 2006
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The great sphinx of 60s garage rock, Roky Erickson helped launch the psychedelic era with the clangorous 13th Floor Elevators but soon became a notorious acid casualty.
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Nov 8, 2012
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Pierre Etaix clowned for a circus before breaking into films, and his wonderful second feature (1965) pays loving tribute to a form of entertainment that was already being eclipsed by mass media.
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