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...legendary care on editions of Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Night and the City and Rififi. And when that film was briefly released in theaters in 2000, it won a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Yet a bunch of Dassin's major Euro-pix, including He Who Must Die, The Law and Phaedra, and his late-60s urban drama Up Tight!, remain unavailable on DVD. Some of his movies are so hard to find, they have not a single review posted on the Internet Movie Database...
...they were the Ace paperbacks of voyeurism. Their meager, TV Guide-size dimensions meant that any model on display in their cramped surroundings had no acuter definition than a woman undressing across the courtyard, behind a screen, in the dark. I suppose that the dingy quality of the girlie pix, like the furtive circumstances of their purchase, was part of their appeal. In the 50s, guilty pleasures were almost obliged to convey more guilt than pleasure...
...1998’s The Moon Pix, Chan Marshall mostly plays the soulful chanteuse, laying sultry vocals over aching down-tempo rock. The two covers—John Lee Hooker’s “Crawlin’ Back Spider” (renamed “Keep on Runnin’”) and Michael Hurley’s “The Werewolf Song”—show off Marshall’s unique take on the blues, with her fragile voice accentuated by well-placed string arrangements. Still, the album finds welcome release when...
Before you scan Variety for a headline reading CHICK PIX CLICK AT PLEX, you should know that the women's-film glass is nine-tenths empty. Of the 10 top-grossing movies released in 2002, Greek Wedding was the only one whose leading character was a woman. Of the nine others, six were sequels--parts of franchises that are almost exclusively built around men. Women have to start from scratch every time...
...SAMSUNG SC-D80 Yes, this digital camcorder is bulky--it won't win any design contests--but it's priced right and fully equipped. It's got 680,000-pixel resolution, 10X zoom lens, image stabilizer and "Nite Pix" for shots in the dark. Want bang for your buck? Shoot in this direction. www.samsungusa.com...