Film GuideThese reviews are of films available for video rental and include American and foreign films from all eras and all genres. You may nott find these in any theaters, but maybe with these titles in hand you can avoid some of that aimless wandering at the video store.
Be sure to visit the Circle Theater Forum!
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An Unconventional Vision
- Hal Hartley's Amateur.
Envious Friendship
- A lighthearted look: Antonia & Jane.
Living Close to the Earth
- Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama.
The Epitome of Camp
- From Japan in the 60's: Black Lizard.
Repression and Fantasy
- Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba.
Comic Genius
- A documentary on the comic strip artist: Crumb.
James Cain meets I Love Lucy
- Louis Malle's Premier: Elevator to the Gallows.
From Rags to Mania
- Elia Kazan directs Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd.
The Means of Obession
- Robert Bresson's A Gentle Woman.
The Passion of Pasolini
- Pasolini's interpretation of The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
A Victim of Circumstance
- Preston Sturges's directorial debut: The Great McGinty
Neo-Neo-Realism
- Pathos meets affluence in The Icicle Thief.
A Rebel with a Cause
- Two versions of Osbourne's Look Back in Anger.
Adventure in the Orient
- Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in Macao.
Shakespeare Noir
- Orson Welles' production of Macbeth.
Matchless Realism
- Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped.
Life in a Small Town
- Preston Sturges's classic: The Miracle of Morgan Creek
Life Imitates Art
- Kazuyoshi Okuyama's directorial debut: The Mystery of Rampo.
Traversing the Centuries
- Vincent Ward's The Navigator.
A Noir Classic
- Betrayals abound in: Out of the Past.
Southern Discomfort
- Brando and Taylor in Reflections in a Golden Eye.
Lost in Space
- Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris.
The Steamy Underside
- Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog.
Demons Unbound
- Hepburn and Taylor in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer.
A Renter's Guide
- Roman Polanski's The Tenant.
Samurai Macbeth
- Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
