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    Three Reasons: Life Is Sweet

    The pleasures are manifold in Mike Leigh’s rollicking and trenchant domestic comedy-drama.

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    Cattle Call

    What a sensational cast Jubal has: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Charles Bronson, Felicia Farr, and more! Chuck Stephens gives us a rundown of the names and faces of Delmer Daves’s western.

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    10 Things I Learned: Medium Cool

    Criterion producer Abbey Lustgarten fills us in on some of what she picked up while working on our release of Haskell Wexler’s 1969 political drama.

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    Camera Man

    Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool—out now on Blu-ray and DVD—is a visceral picture of a tumultuous historical moment and an examination of the ethics of capturing images.

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    The Blob

    Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

     
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    Medium Cool

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    Masaki Kobayashi

     
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    A Man Escaped

    Robert Bresson

     
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    Jubal

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    Repo Man

    Alex Cox

     
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    Gate of Hell

    Teinosuke Kinugasa

     
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    Monsieur Verdoux

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