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Clad in a sharp grey suit, Walker pounds his way down a fluorescent-lit airport hallway.  For the entirety of Point Blank, Walker is the proverbial man on a mission.  All he wants is his money (or so he says), and he’s ready to take it by any means necessary.  Lee Marvin portrays Walker [...]

The fallacy of truth in cinema is as much the main subject of Shohei Imamura’s A Man Vanishes as the investigation into the disappearance of a Japanese businessman that initially appears to be the focal point of the 1967 film. The director, whose films have been the subject of a Brooklyn retrospective the past [...]

Shohei Imamura’s breakthrough film Pigs and Battleships (translated onscreen as Hogs and Warships) is a grimy tale of the underbelly of a Japanese port town under American occupation following World War II. Released in 1961 (though not until the 1980s in the U.S., following the director’s first Palme d’Or win at Cannes for The [...]

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1962 Italian language film Mamma Roma is an extraordinary work of art depicting the struggles of a middle-aged prostitute who moves to Rome with her teenage son in hopes of giving him an opportunity to make something of himself. Apparently controversial for its time, the film is not so much shocking when [...]

The British DVD company Eureka! has a specialty label it calls the “Masters of Cinema” Series. They have already built quite a reputation for producing high quality discs with interesting special features and lengthy booklets included with the release. Most of their DVDs are PAL format and will only play on DVD players equipped to [...]