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Eating Raoul: Criterion Collection

September 26, 2012

Equal parts Ealing Studios manner black comedy and wild taboo-smashing John Waters cult film, Eating Raoul (1982) exists somewhere in-between these two extremes. It was the brainchild of screenwriter Richard Blackburn and Paul Bartel, the latter of which... 

The Man Who Fell to Earth

February 2, 2006

When The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) was shown in the United States it was trimmed of 20 minutes of footage because the studio was worried that people wouldn’t understand what was going on. These cuts only made the movie more incomprehensible. This... 

The Last Shot

November 12, 2005

Actors love doing satires of Hollywood. Case in point: the movie star-packed cast of Robert Altman’s movie The Player (1992) and David Mamet’s State and Main (2000). The Last Shot (2004) follows in this tradition but as you’re watching this clumsy... 

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