Friday, January 22, 2016

2014 Movie Re-releases

Accident | Joseph Losey | 1967
Released May 23 | Rialto Pictures
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Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965
Released February 7 | Rialto Pictures
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Film noir tropes are fashioned onto dystopian framework in the dense Alphaville, where poetry battles technology and women are marginalized. Grade: C


Antonio Gaudí | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1985
Released December 19 | Janus Films
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The Beast | Walerian Borowczyk | 1975
Released December 5 | IFC Films (IFC Midnight)
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The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946
Released June 6 | Park Circus Films
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Boy | Nagisa Oshima | 1969
Released January 17 | Janus Films
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Boy Meets Girl | Leos Carax | 1984
Released August 8 | Carlotta Films U.S.
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Burroughs: The Movie | Howard Brookner | 1983
Released November 14 | Janus Films
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 1920
Released October 31 | Kino Lorber
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The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1970
Released August 29 | Kino Lorber
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Using beauty of streamlined deco to frame brutality of Italian fascism, The Conformist explores inherent tension between order and control. Grade: A


Decasia | Bill Morrison | 2002
Released January 10 | Icarus Films
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Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944
Released August 1 | Universal Pictures
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Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964
Released May 16 | Sony Pictures Repertory
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Fedora | Billy Wilder | 1978
Released September 5 | Olive Films
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Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 1994
Released September 5 | Paramount Pictures
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Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | 1984
Released August 20 | Columbia Pictures
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Godzilla: The Japanese Original aka Gojiro | Ishiro Honda | 1954
Released April 18 | Rialto Pictures
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The allegorical poetry of Gojira, whose ancient evil feasts on modern Japan, is nearly forgotten amid the monstrous destruction it spawned. Grade: A


A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | 1964
Released July 5 | Janus Films
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The Beatles are cheeky young men upending British mores in A Hard Day's Night, Richard Lester's radical comedy cloaked as backstage musical. Grade: A-


Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | 1959
Released October 17 | Rialto Pictures
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Immoral Tales | Walerian Borowczyk | 1974
Released December 12 | IFC Films (IFC Midnight)
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Je t’aime, Je t’aime | Alain Resnais | 1968
Released February 14 | The Film Desk and Bleeding Light Film
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Le Jour se Lève | Marcel Carné | 1939
Released November 14 | Rialto Pictures
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The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1948
Released January 31 | Sony Pictures Repertory
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Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | 1961
Released March 7 | Rialto Pictures
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Level Five | Chris Marker | 1996
Released August 15 | Icarus Films
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Los Angeles Plays Itself | Thom Andersen | 2003
Released January 3 | Cinema Guild
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Manila in the Claws of Light | Lino Brocka | 1975
Released February 7 | Cinema Artists and World Cinema Foundation
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Marketa Lazarová | František Vláčil | 1967
Released February 28 | Janus Films
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My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946
Released January 24 | 20th Century Fox
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Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Werner Herzog | 1979
Released May 16 | Bleeding Light Film Group
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One Day Pina Asked... | Chantal Akerman | 1983
Released June 6 | Icarus Films
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Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | 1939
Released November 7 | Sony Pictures Repertory
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Othello | Orson Welles | 1952
Released April 25 | Carlotta Films U.S.
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The Passionate Thief aka Risate di gioia | Mario Monicelli | 1960
Released December 5 | Rialto Pictures
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Queen Margot | Patrice Chéreau | 1994
Released May 9 | Cohen Film Collection
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Red Hollywood | Thom Andersen and Noël Burch | 1996
Released August 15 | Cinema Guild
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Rome Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945
Released September 12 | Janus Films
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The Sacrifice | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1986
Released November 14 | Kino Lorber
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Saw | James Wan | 2004
Released October 31 | Lionsgate
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The Servant | Joseph Losey | 1963
Released August 22 | Rialto Pictures
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The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940
Released December 25 | Warner Bros.
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Sorcerer | William Friedkin | 1977
Released May 30 | Paramount Pictures
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Il Sorpasso | Dino Risi | 1962
Released January 10 | Janus Films
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Boisterous Gassman takes reserved Trintignant for a ride as Il Sorpasso views 1960s Italian manhood at its most exuberant and irresponsible. Grade: B-


Stations of the Elevated | Manfred Kirchheimer | 1981
Released October 17 | Artists Public Domain/Cinema Conservancy
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A Summer's Tale aka Conte d’été | Eric Rohmer | 1996
Released June 20 | Big World Pictures
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A Tale of Winter aka Conte d'hiver | Eric Rohmer | 1992
Released December 19 | Big World Pictures
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That Man from Rio | Philippe de Broca | 1964
Released August 22 | Cohen Film Collection
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Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958
Released October 31 | Universal Pictures
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Up to His Ears aka Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine | Philippe de Broca | 1965
Released September 5 | Cohen Film Collection
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Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958
Released October 24 | Universal Pictures
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The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | 1999
Released May 30 | Cohen Film Collection
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The Young Girls of Rochefort | Jacques Demy | 1967
Released April 11 | Janus Films
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Shakespearean comedy meets Gene Kelly musical in The Young Girls of Rochefort, a crisp mille-feuille layered with fluffy French romanticism. Grade: A



This list reflects U.S. theatrical releases of at least one week. Mid-week releases are included on Friday.