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Several top titles will be available to U. S. subscribers this month. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has added films by George Lucas and Ang Lee. Watch them while you can.
By Jason Bailey
Two of the biggest videos of the 1970s and one of the biggest videos of the 1980s are among the videos coming out of Netflix in the U. S. in July; Other highlights include a family favorite, a quirk book and an offbeat biopic (dates imply the last day a title is available).
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This true crime documentary has become such an unmissable (and must-see) sensation on Netflix that it ended up spawning a limited-length dramatization about Peacock. It’s not hard to see why: It’s stranger than fiction and details how 12-year-old Jan Broberg was kidnapped through a neighbor and family friend, Robert Berchtold, and then somehow kidnapped again through the same man several years later. The online outrage surrounding the film (and blaming Broberg’s parents) missed the point; Director Skye Borgman explores with sensitivity and intelligence how Berchtold used brainwashing and preparation to commit his shocking crimes.
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In an era of increasingly boring, number-painted biopics, screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski’s paintings resemble oases in the desert: witty, insightful, poignant and arrogant portraits of unconventional subjects like Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman. and Rudy Ray Moore. This 2014 effort brought the writers together in combination with their “Ed Wood” director, Tim Burton, telling the story of artist Margaret Keane, whose hugely popular and undeniably unique paintings were originally intended to be the paintings of her monstrous husband, Walter. Amy Adams plays Margaret with sympathy and grace, while Christoph Waltz’s stunt as the selfish Walter is the most productive work she’s done outdoors of Tarantino’s verses.
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This coming-of-age comedy-drama from 1973 was a mind-blowing launchpad. First, it started a ’50s nostalgia movement (even though the movie is set in 1962, it still feels like the ’50s) that continued the decade with films like “Grease” and the film’s unofficial TV spin-off, “Happy. “It was also a great opportunity for several members of its then-unknown cast, adding Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, and Cindy Williams. And perhaps most importantly, it was the first big success for its co-writer and director, a discreet young Californian filmmaker named George Lucas, who founded the film. in his own youngsters as the hot-rodder of Modesto. His critical and publicity good fortune allowed him to embark on his dream project, a sci-fi epic called “Star Wars,” well, you know the rest.
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Adrian Lyne’s Erotic Mystery was one of the most successful films of 1987 and one of the most controversial, prompting heated conversations about its depictions of adultery and intellectual illness that went from movie lists to opinion pages and magazine covers. The story is simple: Michael Douglas plays a family member whose likely casual weekend affair with Glenn Close literally becomes a matter of life and death. It’s a profound picture: Close’s nuanced characterization surpasses the fine animated film he presented and the critics of the time. We were right to describe as reasonable the emotions that ended in evasion (but a desirable snapshot of the sexual customs of the time) and ethical paranoia.
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