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‘The Serpent’s Egg’ Marks One of Ingmar Bergman’s Strangest Efforts

‘The Serpent’s Egg’ Marks One of Ingmar Bergman’s Strangest Efforts

The Serpent's Egg bares many of the Bergman's trademark features – the suffocating auras of despair and an underdog's sense of triumph over tragedy – but falls short of a more intelligent rendering of human drama.

Ross Is the Name, Crime Is the Game: ‘My Name Is Julia Ross’

Ross Is the Name, Crime Is the Game: ‘My Name Is Julia Ross’

My Name Is Julia Ross is fast, direct, and easy fun. It never tests the viewer's patience with unnecessary trills.

Quiet Desires in Allison Anders’ ‘Gas Food Lodging’

Quiet Desires in Allison Anders’ ‘Gas Food Lodging’

Allison Anders' Gas Food Lodging gives us such compelling characters that we cannot help but sit and observe them.

10 Old-School Halloween Horror Movies: Blu-rays That Go Bump in the Night

10 Old-School Halloween Horror Movies: Blu-rays That Go Bump in the Night

Reader, we’ve sifted through many of this year’s ghastly Blu-ray offerings so that you don’t have to. Venture in for watchable goods for your macabre marathons and blood-curdling binges.

But a Dream within a Dream: Luigi Bazzoni’s ‘The Possessed’

But a Dream within a Dream: Luigi Bazzoni’s ‘The Possessed’

The Possessed (aka Lady of the Lake) is a feverish dream-narrative in which the protagonist is often literally fevered and dreaming, yet he jerks awake more often than people in a Brian De Palma movie.