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Film Guide

These 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!


 o An Unconventional Vision

Hal Hartley's Amateur.

 o Envious Friendship

A lighthearted look: Antonia & Jane.

 o Living Close to the Earth

Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama.

 o The Epitome of Camp

From Japan in the 60's: Black Lizard.

 o Repression and Fantasy

Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba.

 o Comic Genius

A documentary on the comic strip artist: Crumb.

 o James Cain meets I Love Lucy

Louis Malle's Premier: Elevator to the Gallows.

 o From Rags to Mania

Elia Kazan directs Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd.

 o The Means of Obession

Robert Bresson's A Gentle Woman.

 o The Passion of Pasolini

Pasolini's interpretation of The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

 o A Victim of Circumstance

Preston Sturges's directorial debut: The Great McGinty

 o Neo-Neo-Realism

Pathos meets affluence in The Icicle Thief.

 o A Rebel with a Cause

Two versions of Osbourne's Look Back in Anger.

 o Adventure in the Orient

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in Macao.

 o Shakespeare Noir

Orson Welles' production of Macbeth.

 o Matchless Realism

Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped.

 o Life in a Small Town

Preston Sturges's classic: The Miracle of Morgan Creek

 o Life Imitates Art

Kazuyoshi Okuyama's directorial debut: The Mystery of Rampo.

 o Traversing the Centuries

Vincent Ward's The Navigator.

 o A Noir Classic

Betrayals abound in: Out of the Past.

 o Southern Discomfort

Brando and Taylor in Reflections in a Golden Eye.

 o Lost in Space

Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris.

 o The Steamy Underside

Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog.

 o Demons Unbound

Hepburn and Taylor in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer.

 o A Renter's Guide

Roman Polanski's The Tenant.

 o Samurai Macbeth

Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.