Badlands (1973)
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The version of Wolfgang Petersen’s classic Das Boot now arriving in your neighborhood multiplexes is a new director’s cut of the version of 1982 which adds over an hour of original footage to bring the film to an epic three and a half hours in length. The time flies. This is perhaps the best war…
An interesting historical essay-in-film on the political complexity of Civil War America which, however, goes badly wrong toward the end
Another immensely watchable film from Iran, in spite a slight tendency to promote civic responsibility
A guy-comedy which dares to take the frat-boy romance with extremes of inebriation into disturbing new territory
A movie that just goes to show you that the virtues of understatement can be overstated
The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway is a typical Greenaway blend of the bizarre, the disgusting and the boring. Especially the boring. You wouldn’t think it, would you? That a man could concentrate so exclusively on weird sexual fetishes (in this case, a woman’s desire to have her body written on — and then to…
The version of Wolfgang Petersen’s classic Das Boot now arriving in your neighborhood multiplexes is a new director’s cut of the version of 1982 which adds over an hour of original footage to bring the film to an epic three and a half hours in length. The time flies. This is perhaps the best war…
An interesting historical essay-in-film on the political complexity of Civil War America which, however, goes badly wrong toward the end
Another immensely watchable film from Iran, in spite a slight tendency to promote civic responsibility
A guy-comedy which dares to take the frat-boy romance with extremes of inebriation into disturbing new territory
A movie that just goes to show you that the virtues of understatement can be overstated
The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway is a typical Greenaway blend of the bizarre, the disgusting and the boring. Especially the boring. You wouldn’t think it, would you? That a man could concentrate so exclusively on weird sexual fetishes (in this case, a woman’s desire to have her body written on — and then to…
The version of Wolfgang Petersen’s classic Das Boot now arriving in your neighborhood multiplexes is a new director’s cut of the version of 1982 which adds over an hour of original footage to bring the film to an epic three and a half hours in length. The time flies. This is perhaps the best war…
An interesting historical essay-in-film on the political complexity of Civil War America which, however, goes badly wrong toward the end
Another immensely watchable film from Iran, in spite a slight tendency to promote civic responsibility
A guy-comedy which dares to take the frat-boy romance with extremes of inebriation into disturbing new territory
A movie that just goes to show you that the virtues of understatement can be overstated
The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway is a typical Greenaway blend of the bizarre, the disgusting and the boring. Especially the boring. You wouldn’t think it, would you? That a man could concentrate so exclusively on weird sexual fetishes (in this case, a woman’s desire to have her body written on — and then to…