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• The Strangers: Chapter I *1/2
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• Chief of Station *1/2
• The Fall Guy ***
• I Saw the TV Glow ***1/2
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• The Idea of You ***
• Cash Out **
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• Bob Marley: One Love ***
• The Bricklayer *
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• Devil's Doorway ****
• Drift ***
• Founders Day **
• Girlfight ***1/2
• Gravity ****
• Knox Goes Away ***1/2
• The Mask of Fu Manchu ***1/2
• Red Right Hand *1/2
• Sasquatch Sunset ***
• Coup de chance ***1/2
• Cry-Baby ***1/2
• Floating Weeds / A Story of Floating Weeds (Criterion) ****
• Imaginary **
• Bluebeard (1944) ****
• Dune: Part Two ***1/2
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• Valentine's Day Picks (2/11)
• Master Class (2/4)
• Films of Jean-Luc Godard (1/28)
• As Seen on Television (1/21)
• The Art of War (1/14)
• The Films of Fritz Lang (1/7)
• The Best DVD Releases of 2001 (12/31)
• Yuletide Viewings (12/24)
• Silent Night: Silent Films (12/17)
• DVD Double-bills (12/10)
• The Golden Eighties (12/3)
• Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (11/26)
• Films of Woody Allen (11/19)
• Weekend Stories (11/12)
• The Godfather Trilogy (11/5)
• Thirteen for Halloween (10/29)
• Films of Brian De Palma (10/22)
• Cult Films (10/15)
• Hannibal, Foster vs. Moore (10/8)
• Citizen Kane and "The Simpsons" (10/1)
• History: Eisenstein & Treasures Box Sets (9/17)
• Three Comedies (9/10)
• Two from the 1930s (9/3)
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• Die Hard Trilogy (8/20)
• Odds & Ends DVDs (8/13)
• Selling the Melodrama: Fassbinder & Sirk (8/6)
• John Wayne in the 60s (7/30)
• Films of F.W. Murnau (7/23)
• Films of Roger Corman (7/16)
• The Stanley Kubrick Collection (7/9)
• The Strange World of Coffin Joe (7/2)
• DVD Box Sets (6/25)
• Joan the Maid & other French Films (6/18)
• Hitchcock x 13 (6/11)
• Follow Me, Men: Big Trouble in Little China, etc. (6/4)
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• Sex and Blondes: Quills, etc. (5/21)
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• Made in Japan: 3 New Japanese DVDs
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• Films of Dusan Makavejev
• Vanetine's Day Picks
• Sci-Fi Classics
• Like Godfather, Like Daughter: The Coppolas
• Luis Bunuel's 100th Birthday