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Jacques Tourneur's "Stranger on Horseback"

Luis Bunuel's Nazarin and Illusion Travels by Streetcar

Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection

Eclipse Series 8 - Lubitsch Musicals (The Love Parade / The Smiling Lieutenant / One Hour with You / Monte Carlo)

The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You

The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger (By Chris Fujiwara)

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► NEW View Shooting Down Pictures' latest video essays on more of TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films... "The Threepenny Opera", "Two English Girls" with C. Mason Wells, "Night of the Demon" with Chris Fujiwara, "The Go-Between" with Dan Callahan, "Light Sleeper" with Paul Schrader and Ed Lachmann, and "El Topo".

Well, it's exciting times ahead for all classic film buffs... We normally leave the announcement of new DVD releases to essential websites like DVD Beaver, but the announcement of Fox's forthcoming 12-film Borzage/Murnau box has us licking our lips wildly in anticipation. Some brief comments on the films included (10 from Frank Borzage, and 2 from F.W. Murnau) can be found at Amazon. Also of much importance is Columbia Tri-Star's forthcoming Budd Boetticher box, which features five of Boetticher's great westerns.

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--Recent Viewings--

° MARRIED LIFE (2007/USA-Canada) Ira Sachs W metacritic

° THE BIG TRAIL (1930/USA) Raoul Walsh R Fred Camper

° LORD LOVE A DUCK (1966/USA) George Axelrod W A.V. Club

° THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH [TV] (1956/USA) Orson Welles R YouTube & Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)

° MANJI (1964/Japan) Yasuzo Masumura W Time Out

° KATZELMACHER (1969/West Germany) Rainer Werner Fassbinder W Strictly Film School

° SOUTHLAND TALES (2006/USA-Germany) Richard Kelly D metacritic

° PERSEPOLIS (2007/France-USA) Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi HR metacritic

° CONFLICT (1945/USA) Curtis Bernhardt W Ozu's World Movie Reviews

° THE PAJAMA GAME (1957/USA) George Abbott & Stanley Donen R Slant Magazine

° THE DARK KNIGHT (2008/USA) Christopher Nolan A metacritic

° KINGS & QUEEN (2004/France) Arnaud Desplechin W metacritic

° THE BANK JOB (2008/USA-UK-Australia) Roger Donaldson W metacritic

° HOLLYWOODLAND (2006/USA) Allen Coulter W metacritic

° BLADES OF GLORY (2007/USA) Will Speck & Josh Gordon W metacritic

° THE AVIATOR'S WIFE (1981/France) Eric Rohmer R Time Out

° HOUSE OF CARDS (1947/USA) Joseph Vogel W Kino Video

° HALLELUJAH! (1929/USA) King Vidor R Film Reference

° THE SAVAGES (2007/USA) Tamara Jenkins R metacritic

° HOT RODS TO HELL (1967/USA) John Brahm A TCM

HR = Highly Recommended (masterpiece/near-masterpiece); R = Recommended (very good); W = Worth a Look (good); A = Approach with Caution (average; not great, but not a disaster); D = Dud (A disaster).

You can view all of our film recommendations here.

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The 1,000 Greatest Films

August 2008

Sight & Sound Dream Tickets: The once hugely popular double bill saw unlikely pairings throwing new light upon one another. Now a selection of experts pick their perfect twosomes that are more than the sum of their parts (PDF File).

LA Weekly Richard Quine: Dying is Easy. A journalist recalls his fateful encounter with Hollywood's most tragic comedy director.

Reverse Shot The Kuchar Brothers.

Time Out James Marsh on ‘Man on Wire’.

Village Voice On the Eve of Their Momma's Man Opening, Jacobs Father and Son Talk Shop and Family: The films of Azazel Jacobs are on the offbeat end of the cinema spectrum.

Bright Lights Film Journal Paradise Betrayed: Talking with Terence Davies about Of Time and the City.

Senses of Cinema Forgotten Lean: The Ann Todd Trilogy.

The Boston Phoenix Our superheroes, ourselves: What the current crop of comic-book action movies tells us about America's identity crisis.

Cinema-Scope Out of Time: Notes on Marker.

Film Comment The Classical Modernist: Negotiating the singular career of Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira on the eve of his 100th birthday.

Previous recommended reading.

The Shooting Gallery

...Or the 100 Most Fortunate Actors in Film History?

Who are the most important film actors of all-time? Is it those who had the biggest star-power, those who won the most awards or accolades, those who grabbed the most headlines? Or, was it those performers who actually worked - for whatever reason - with the best filmmakers and subsequently ended up appearing in many of the screen's finest films?

See what They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? think, and prepare to be mildly surprised with some of our inclusions and also by many of our omissions. (Last Updated during December 2007).


	Acclaimed Music
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Rene Clair's "Paris qui dort". Number 1,000 on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films list

TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing is now based on 1,604 critics/reviewers' and filmmakers' top-10 lists, culled from various sources. Additionally, we have also factored in over 650 magazine polls, film institute polls, and many other polls of interest. The net effect of all our fine-tuning over the last twelve months is that a total of 139 films have debuted or re-entered our list and, of course, 139 films (and some very fine ones at that) have dropped out. View The 1,000 Greatest Films.

Film Noir: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They?

The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films

"From Alien through The Wicker Man, each entry brings a breath of fresh air to the consideration of seminal movies many of us thought had been analyzed to death. As editor Aaron Christensen puts it, Keep America strong! Watch more monster movies!" - Joe Dante

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