https://crookedmarquee.com/the-deeper-truths-of-frankenstein-the-true-story/
This little-seen 1973 TV movie is one of the most sophisticated adaptations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/this-story-will-run-the-lost-honor-of-katharina-blum-at-50/
Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta's adaptation of the incendiary Heinrich Böll novel premiered in the U.S. fifty years ago this week, but it...
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https://crookedmarquee.com/lets-sing-a-song-together-linda-linda-linda-at-20/
The Japanese punk musical might make older audiences nostalgic for the glory days of basic cable, when a film like this would have found a place in the...
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https://crookedmarquee.com/classic-corner-out-of-the-past/
Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/classic-corner-starting-over/
No more talk of “Ella McCay” — let us instead look back at James L. Brooks’s feature screenwriting debut, now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/review-holding-liat/
This intimate documentary reveals the schisms of an Israeli-American family after their daughter and son-in-law were abducted by Hamas.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/classic-corner-the-sting/
Even recency-biased Netflix can’t help streaming this 1973 Best Picture winner, a fast-paced delight that floats on the considerable charms of Robert Redford...
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https://crookedmarquee.com/the-red-spectacles-a-brutal-cop-trapped-by-his-own-fantasies/
For a director who’s experienced great popular success, Mamoru Oshii is a remarkably eccentric artist. He’s lamented the fact that his live-actions films...
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https://crookedmarquee.com/20-years-later-can-walk-the-line-escape-the-shadow-of-walk-hard/
“Walk Hard” was a diss track in cinematic form that dismantles the script of “Walk the Line” so thoroughly that it might as well be a beat-for-beat...
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https://crookedmarquee.com/casino-at-30-an-eye-for-vise/
Martin Scorsese’s Vegas mob drama features the single most wince-inducing sequence of his entire filmography.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/life-is-hard-brutish-and-short-in-luis-bunuels-los-olvidados/
There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and they’re not necessarily the most
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https://crookedmarquee.com/shes-so-unusual-cyndi-lauper-marquee-star/
Cyndi Lauper’s willingness to experiment in different media has played a role in her career-long ubiquity…including a side hustle as a character actress.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/review-wake-up-dead-man/
Rian Johnson’s new "Knives Out" mystery hits all the expected sweet spots, but also goes in some unexpected (and delightful) directions.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/red-sorghum-kickstarted-one-of-the-great-actor-director-collaborations/
Zhang Yimou’s début kicked off a legendary partnership with actress Gong Li, and signaled the beginning of a new era of Chinese cinema.
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https://crookedmarquee.com/the-beautifully-bonkers-pleasures-of-richard-rushs-color-of-night/
Richard Rush's final film, now streaming among the Criterion Channel's erotic thrillers, is wild in none of the expected ways.
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