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"One of the five greatest family films ever made. Possibly the best. Pure magic." - Daniel Fienberg A talking-animal movie that's not only not stupid but charming, witty, and utterly endearing? Thirty years ago, a little pig and his barnyard…
"Using superimpositions, rapid and insistent visual patterns, fantasy sequences, and the visual flamboyance of actors impersonating mad people, A Page of Madness builds an atmosphere of astonishing intensity." - Chris Fujiwara A visionary masterpiece once thought lost forever, A PAGE…
In 1933’s I'M NO ANGEL, the second of two pre-Code movies that she wrote as well as starred in, the voracious and voluptuous Mae West plays Tira, a sideshow dancer who accumulates fame—and men—with her popular lion taming act. Reteaming…
“The first picture on psychoanalysis is also a tale of suspense, and Hitchcock embellishes it with characteristically brilliant twists” - Time Out "The secret recesses of the mind are explored with brilliant and terrifying effect" (New York Herald Tribune) in…
"An exciting comedy!" - Battleship Pretension Mary Pickford plays a "tomboy of the tenements" in this comedy drama, which she also wrote. Filmed over ten weeks, LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY was shot entirely on a set created by art director John…
"Not only does Vincent give a great, measured performance, but Anabel Shaw gives a brilliant and exhausting performance as poor, persecuted Janet, and Lynn Bari is so good that you want to murder her due to how scheming and conniving she is.…
"A divinely dark and devious brain tease...Scorsese has given us a new noir classic." - The Los Angeles Times Set in 1954, this "intense, gripping and unforgettable" (Richard Roeper) psychological thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels,…
"A drama that builds to a fever pitch of tension and holds itself there with superlative artistry." - The Hollywood Reporter Anatole Litvak’s classic adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s book, THE SNAKE PIT is a harrowing portrait of a young…
Considered one of the first— if not the first— women in prison movies, 1933’s Ladies They Talk About stars a perfectly cast Barbara Stanwyck as Nan Taylor, the hardboiled member of a gang of bank robbers who ends up taking the…
Body horror made a quantum leap in ’32, with the twin releases of these two markedly different exploitation classics. In Island of Lost Souls, Charles Laughton plays the sinister Dr. Moreau, whose gene-splicing lab in the jungle spawns a new class…