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DEADLY SWEET (DVD)

By | July 2009

The Italian title of Tinto Brass’ film is “Col cuore in gola,” which literally means, “with heart in throat.” It’s a darn shame that “Deadly Sweet” leaves the heart going nowhere but indifference.

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DEADLY SWEET (DVD)

If you like your 1960s London fashion, French New Wave aroma, comic book aesthetics, and Italian exploitation shavings in one dose, and you don’t give a...

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CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Time was the American Dream meant simply holding down a steady job that put food on the table. Today, that’s just not enough for people. No one wants to...

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CHEKHOV & MARIA (DVD)

Eric Till’s adaptation of Jovanka Bach’s play is set in 1905 Yalta, with playwright Anton Chekhov facing multiple challenges: his tuberculosis is...

MANN-ING THE PAST IN DIGITAL

Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,” which opened last week, is a terrific movie for all the traditional reasons but also for a nontraditional one —...

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BOTTLED UP

Director and co-writer Tony Wise makes one fatal error in his dramatic short, “Bottled Up”: He pits extreme dirtbags versus extreme yuppies. And though...

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KICKING SAND IN YOUR FACE

Clearly inspired by those Charles Atlas bodybuilding advertisements that used to appear in 1960s comic books, this short film tells the story of a loser...

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MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: VOLUME XV (DVD)

Shout Factory's latest "Mystery Science Theater 3000" volume picks up where their excellent 20th Anniversary Edition left off, with some unique footage...

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THE FILMS OF SERGEI PARADJANOV: THE FOUR-DISC KINO COLLECTION (DVD)

I’m not going to sit here and say that I enjoy watching Soviet film. There is something about the starkness of the scenes and the obtuseness of the...

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BEING INNU

Catherine Mullins’ documentary focuses on the Canadian village of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, which is home to the Innu tribe of Native Americans. In the...

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PORNOGRAPHY

Today, our media is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. Images, text, video gets spread so far and wide that, at the whim of a machine, they're on the...

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