Articles by Alan Bacchus

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  Grand Hotel [Blu-Ray]

  Edmund Goulding

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013

  Once billed as "featuring the greatest cast in stage or screen history," Grand Hotel exemplifies the height of Hollywood allure in the earl...

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  Bonfire of the Vanities

  Brian De Palma

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2012

  Even by Brian De Palma standards — a man whom critics and audiences continually fall in and out of love with — the collective r...

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  Lawrence of Arabia [Blu-Ray]

  David Lean

  PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2012

  Its excellence in spectacle cinema notwithstanding, as long as the Middle East is in conflict, Lawrence of Arabia will be a relevant and ti...

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  Terror Train

  Roger Spottiswoode

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  This seemingly forgettable Halloween knock-off from the '80s, featuring libidinous teenagers getting hacked-up by a masked villain as reven...

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  Cinderella

  Clyde Geronimo, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

  PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2012

  History could define three specific phases of Disney animation: the pre-war Golden Age of Animation (1937 to 1942), which included Snow Whi...

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  Mean Streets

  Martin Scorsese

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2012

  One of the most valued treasures of the Scorsese canon, Mean Streets birthed Scorsese's distinct cinematic vision of the world: street-wise...

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  Chariots of Fire [Blu-Ray]

  Hugh Hudson

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2012

  The iconic shot of the athletes wearing Wimbledon white, running through the beach, splashing water in slow motion, set to the synthesized...

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  Deliverance [Blu-Ray]

  John Boorman

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2012

  Perhaps the ultimate film about the male bravado, four city men, in the outback of Appalachia, out to conquer nature and canoe down the rap...