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Ishtar
(May, 1987)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
(Ross, 1976)
The Devils
(Russell, 1974)
The Pirates of Penzance
(Papp/Leach, 1983)
The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)
-30-
(Webb, 1959)
Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)
Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)
The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)
Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)
In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)
That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)
Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)
Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)
Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)
Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

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The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
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Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
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1970-1974
The Revolutionary
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The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs (OOP)
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
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Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Old Times
(Curtis, 1991)
Prospero's Books
(Greenaway, 1991)
City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
(Soderbergh, 1993)
Dadetown
(Hexter, 1995)
SubUrbia
(Linklater, 1997)

Obama nudges ahead in Pennsylvania

I was a little shocked by a 4.2 Public Policy Polling survey that has Barack Obama edging Hillary Clinton among likely Pennsylvania Democratic voters by 45% to 43%. I thought the big hope for the Obama team was to lose to Clinton in the Keystone State by 10 percentage points or less. I called PPP's Dean Debnan to ask what's happening. He said his team was surprised also "so we went back and ran the survey a second time with a different group of respondents," etc. And the numbers are the numbers.

PPP surveyed 1224 likely Democratic primary voters on March 31st and again on April 1st.

The survey claims that Obama is "narrowing the gap with white voters, trailing just 49-38, while maintaining his customary significant advantage with black voters, [leading] that group 75-17. Obama also leads among all age groups except senior citizens, with whom Clinton has a 50-34 advantage. The poll shows the standard gender gap with Obama leading by 15 points among men while trailing by 10 points with women."

Public Policy Polling release says it has had "the most accurate numbers of any company in the country for the Democratic primaries in South Carolina and Wisconsin, as well as the closest numbers for any organization that polled the contests in both Texas and Ohio."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 2, 2008 at 11:27 AM

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alan Author Profile Page says ...

People are beginning to realize that Clinton is officially over, and Obama will be the nominee. Why vote for a sure loser?

Posted by alan Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 12:04 PM

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Mr. Buckles Author Profile Page says ...

Also note that in the Public Policy poll, 13% of those interviewed were still undecided.

Following the trends of NH, MA and OH, these are Bradley voters who come home to camp clinton when the time comes to pull the lever.

I am still thinking that Obama does well if he keeps his loss under a 10% differential - let's predict 8%.

George B

Posted by Mr. Buckles Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 12:18 PM

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Geoff Author Profile Page says ...

I'm not crossing my fingers for three more weeks (more like 3 months in political time) based on any poll.

But it is surprisingly good news.

Posted by Geoff Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 12:19 PM

comment #4

Celebrity Werewolf Hunter Author Profile Page says ...

I remember similar polling that had Obama winning Texas and New Hampshire, and being neck and neck in Ohio. I agree with Mr. Buckles and will not get my hopes up until late night Tuesday April 22nd. Im waiting to see what bombshell she drops the final weekend that pushes the fencers into Clintopia.

Posted by Celebrity Werewolf Hunter Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 1:08 PM

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appleman Author Profile Page says ...

How is that? Read the Philly papers and the Ed Rendell quotes and you'll get another side of the story.

If PA is really just two cities (Phila. and Pittsburgh) with Alabama in between, then you may have the following scenario... Guy walks into his voting booth with the expressed intention of voting for Obama.

Before he pulls the lever - a whole generation of stupidity enters his thoughts and he votes otherwise. I'm just saying.

Posted by appleman Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 2:00 PM

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D.Z. Author Profile Page says ...

It's another case of Hillary resting on her laurels. Also, choosing not to spin herself out of the Bosnia misfire(no pun intended) the way Barack did with Wright probably didn't help much, either...She really needs to come up with another foreign policy "success" story soon, if she wants to stay in the game.

Posted by D.Z. Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 2:43 PM

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admiralmpj Author Profile Page says ...

As an avid Obama supporter, there are three things to keep in mind:

1) PPP has had a good reputation, at least according to the fine folks at Talking Points Memo, who actually keep track of these things.

2) So far the PPP poll is an outlier, in that it's the only poll showing Mr. Obama with a lead. But ALL the polls show that her lead is shriking away...

3) The Primary is still three weeks away.

The problem with polls isn't one of accuracy, it's really that you can't tell how well a job the poll is doing unless you look under the hood, see the formulas within the formulas. What does PPP think African-American turnout will be? Blue Collar Vote? Young Voters? Their formulations on these lines determine what the final number will be. And if those first numbers are wrong, the final result will be wrong. (Mr. Zogby, N.H. calling on line one)

(Man, are we talking math too much on this site or what??)

Basically, I'm happy because things are headed in the right direction, and everyone has decided to train their fire on John McCain...for the moment.

Posted by admiralmpj Author Profile Page at April 2, 2008 2:49 PM

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