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  Watch This Between Cape Fear and Casino, Martin Scorsese jazzed up Edith Wharton in The Age Of Innocence

  In one his most undervalued films, Marty applies his electrifying techniques to a faithful literary adaptation.

  May 6, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This A low budget can’t squash Super’s ambitions

  Rainn Wilson goes from zero to “hero” in James Gunn’s demented addition to the costumed-crusader canon.

  May 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Believe it or not, Sky High is a blast

  Overcoming a less-than-promising pedigree, this Hollywood superhero comedy soars.

  May 2, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This A love of comic books fuels the affecting Unbreakable

  Dubbed a disappointment upon release, the superhero flick looks today like M. Night Shyamalan’s best movie.

  May 1, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This It’s hard out there for a hero in Big Man Japan

  Defending the city from monsters is a thankless job in comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto’s directorial debut.

  April 30, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This America, fuck yeah? Not so much, says Mr. Freedom

  Expat filmmaker William Klein skewers his home country in a hilariously bitter satire.

  April 29, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Even by the standards of noir, Night Moves is harsh

  Gene Hackman snoops around the Florida Keys in Arthur Penn’s ultra-bleak crime flick.

  April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Wild Things delivers salaciousness with a wink

  There’s more to this trashy Florida noir than just bare flesh. Maybe.

  April 25, 2013 | 10:30am -

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  Watch This Body Heat blends graphic sexuality with old-school noir glamour

  Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut is the truest expression of his deep reverence for Hollywood’s past.

  April 24, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Humphrey Bogart fights his own heroic bent yet again in Key Largo

  This storm-wracked drama reunited Bogie and Lauren Bacall once more for a hotel-based take on the home-invasion drama.

  April 23, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Palmetto drags film-noir conventions into the ‘90s

  A little-seen Southern potboiler offers a classical counterpoint to the hipper crime larks of the Clinton era.

  April 22, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Before Star Wars, George Lucas was an indie filmmaker

  A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, George Lucas made a small and personal debut.

  April 19, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This John Carpenter’s debut, Dark Star, plays like a parody of the later Alien

  Alien’s writer and Halloween’s director launched their careers with a deep-space spoof.

  April 18, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The cerebral sci-fi classic Solaris is for adventurous viewers only

  Thirty years before Steven Soderbergh vexed audiences with a glossy remake, Andrei Tarkovsky unleashed an even more challenging sci-fi opus.

  April 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Universal’s brief indie fling produced great, odd results like Silent Running

  A ’70s experiment in low-budget cinema with minimal studio oversight produced a series of startling films, including this science-fiction oddity.

  April 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Fantastic Planet turns dreamy alien exotica into a political metaphor

  Today, the film is more worth watching for its spectacular imagery than its simple take on rebellion.

  April 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This John Sayles’ Eight Men Out pities the plight of the working baseball player

  A star-filled historical movie explores the 1919 Black Sox scandal with nuance and consideration for nearly everyone involved.

  April 12, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The Dominicans in Ballplayer: Pelotero compete on an unequal playing field

  A documentary about the talent-rich world of Dominican baseball players reveals abuse within the system.

  April 11, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Bingo Long mashes up ’70s tropes with a story about black indie baseballers

  Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones lead a stellar cast in John Badham’s rollicking lesson in baseball history.

  April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Watch This Sugar goes beyond hits and runs in revealing the American immigrant experience

  Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s follow-up to Half Nelson defies the norms of the sports movie.

  April 9, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie ever made

  Ron Shelton’s endlessly quotable romantic comedy makes passion its subject.

  April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The Holy Mountain takes viewers on the freakiest of freaky journeys

  A flurry of surrealistic images provides a rebel’s tour through politics, religion, and sex.

  April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This In Pink Floyd: The Wall, a rectum sings, children become sausage, and monsters triumph

  The feature-length visualization of a double concept album is endless nightmare fuel.

  April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Jean Cocteau’s The Blood Of A Poet is a mesmerizingly bizarre feast for the senses

  Made in the early ’30s, a Surrealist wonder severs all ties to narrative convention.

  April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This 7 Faces Of Dr. Lao: Tony Randall as an old Chinese man and a naked, sexy satyr

  …and as Medusa, and Merlin, and many more.

  April 2, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is a bleary indictment of society’s ills

  Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous book accomplishes a difficult task.

  April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Best Worst Movie uncovers the heartbreaking psychodrama in a memorably insane B-movie

  Troll 2’s young star made an unexpectedly moving study on the making and afterlife of a popular candidate for the worst film ever made. 

  March 29, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Burden Of Dreams reveals the madness behind a Werner Herzog madness epic

  The behind-the-scenes story of Fitzcarraldo is practically crazier than the film itself.

  March 28, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Lost In La Mancha chronicles the unmaking of Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film

  When a director of famously troubled productions decided to tackle a massive, challenging classic, the results were inevitable.

  March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This American Movie tracks the cinematic dreams of the ultimate Hollywood outsider

  Chris Smith’s documentary about Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt is a hilarious, troubling look at a dogged creative spirit.

  March 26, 2013 | 12:00am -