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Retro Reels
Up one levelThe Day the Earth Stood Still
Pop quiz. What three words will stop any nine-foot silver robot in its tracks and keep it from incinerating the world? The answer is at the end of this retro review.
North By Northwest
by
Mark Johnson
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02|19|2009 07:57 PM
This is the first of a series of Retro Reels—reviews of classic movies that are now known mostly as DVD fodder. Still, the Digital Versatile Disc is to be applauded because it rescued so many great films from the backwaters of memory and made them available to new, young and adventurous audiences.