They’re Baa-aaack: Warner continues to give a new lease on life to out-of-print DVD titles via the Archive program, as evidenced by these resurfacing rousers: The Last of Sheila (1973) is a crackerjack mystery in which James Coburn tries to find out who killed his gossip columnist girl in a hit-and-run accident by luring the suspects to a yacht for a devious mind game; James Mason, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin and Joan Hackett also star…
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) stars Paul Newman is the old West outlaw-turned-judge who seeks revenge against those who wanted him to hang in John Huston’s comic oater, co-starring Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, and Ava Gardner…
Ray Harryhausen’s special effects magic marks The Valley of Gwangi (1969), where the impromptu Mexican expedition by a band of rodeo cowboys uncovers a ravine where prehistoric life still thrives…
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening become the vacationers caught up in whirlwind romance, and subsequent heartbreak, in Love Affair (1994); Katharine Hepburn co-stars… Fans of classic movies will recognize the similarity to Leo McCarey’s original Love Affair (1939) and his own remake almost thirty years later, An Affair To Remember (1957) with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
Two American cousins abroad in ‘80s Spain deal with life and the opposite sex in Whit Stillman’s witty Barcelona (1994)… and a new-to-the-neighborhood teenage girl bonds with a withdrawn young boy, and a memorable secret is uncovered, in the youth classic The Boy Who Could Fly (1986).