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Il Grido
(Antonioni, 1957)

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)

The Fox
(Rydell, 1967)

Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)

Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)

At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)

Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)

Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

Mike's Murder
(Bridges, 1984)

Reader Submissions

1930's-1950's
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
(Karlson, 1960)
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
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
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)
'Doc'
(Perry, 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
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
(Pakula, 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)
Running on Empty
(Lumet, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Men Don't Leave
(Brickman, 1990)
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)

Upcoming

June 11

Tetro

June 12

Call of the Wild 3D

Food, Inc.

Imagine That

Moon

Sex Positive

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love

June 16

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

June 19

$9.99

Dead Snow

The Proposal

Whatever Works

Year One

June 24

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

June 26

Cheri

Fireflies in the Garden

The Hurt Locker

My Sister's Keeper

The Stoning of Soraya M. 

Surveillance 

July 1

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Public Enemies

July 3

The Girl from Monaco

I Hate Valentine's Day

July 10

Bruno

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Soul Power

July 15

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

July 17

(500) Days of Summer

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

July 24

All Good Things

The Answer Man

G-Force

In the Loop

Orphan

The Ugly Truth

July 29

Adam

July 31

The Cove

Funny People

Lorna's Silence

They Came from Upstairs

August 7

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Julie & Julia

Paper Heart

Shorts

When in Rome

August 14

A Perfect Getaway

Bandslam

District 9

The Goods: The Don Ready Story

I Sell the Dead

Ponyo

Pool Boys

Spread

Taking Woodstock

The Time Traveler's Wife

August 21

Five Minutes of Heaven

Goose on the Loose!

Inglorious Bastards

It Might Get Loud

Post Grad

World's Greatest Dad

August 28

The Boat that Rocked

Final Destination: Death Trip

H2

September 4

All About Steve

Amreeka

Black Dynamite

Carriers

Citizen Game

Extract

Pandorum

Shanghai

September 9

9

September 11

The Red Canvas

Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself

Whiteout

September 17

The Burning Plain

September 18

Armored

Brand New Day

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Jennifer's Body

Splice

September 25

Fame

The Invention of Lying

Surrogates

October 2

A Serious Man

More Than a Game

Sorority Row

Toy Story/Toy Story 2

Real Reason

So the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye went to the Vanity Fair party at the Hotel du Cap last Saturday night, and learned from an "executive" that Vicky Cristina Barcelona costar Scarlett Johansson didn't make it to Cannes because of "scheduling issues," as Woody Allen put it the other day in a press confernce, but because she was being an ego-monster in terms of perks. She demanded an out-of-town villa ("way out in the sticks, some 25 to 30 miles away") and insisted on a 5,000 euro-per-day makeup consultant, Bamigboye reports.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 20, 2008 at 6:01 AM

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erniesouchak Author Profile Page says ...

If she'd insisted on acting lessons, I hope they would've relented.

Posted by erniesouchak Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 7:19 AM

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Jimmycrackcorn Author Profile Page says ...

Have you heard Scarlett's new album of Tom Waits songs? Hoo boy.

Posted by Jimmycrackcorn Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 8:26 AM

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Wrecktum Author Profile Page says ...

Hey, I like the Scarlett Waits video.

Also, never conflate a star's "demands" with their actual needs. How many times has a manager or agent made crazy, unreasonable demands simply because they know they can get them?

Of course, I'm a Scarlett apologist, so you can ignore me.

Posted by Wrecktum Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 10:00 AM

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Krazy Eyes Author Profile Page says ...

While you can certainly argue that the concept of ScarJo covering Tom Waits was a woefully misguided idea to begin with, the actual album is a lot better than it had any right to be. She may not have a good voice (though I find her husky voice fairly unique) or even much chops in the singing department but that's never held Waits back. It could have been *a lot* worse and you have to respect her for not doing a straight up pop album which would have been a disaster.

I think she's also do well with some sultry old-school burlesque-style tunes.

Posted by Krazy Eyes Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 10:18 AM

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Richardson Author Profile Page says ...

"While you can certainly argue that the concept of ScarJo covering Tom Waits was a woefully misguided idea to begin with, the actual album is a lot better than it had any right to be."

You know, once you get kicked in the balls once, the later hits don't hurt so bad. So one might say that getting kicked in the balls multiple times is better than it has any right to be, because it doesn't hurt as exponentially as it should based on how much the first kick hurts.

... Come to think of it, even by those standards, this album is still not better than it has a right to be.

Posted by Richardson Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 12:38 PM

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Ogami Itto Author Profile Page says ...

You know, once you get kicked in the balls once, the later hits don't hurt so bad. So one might say that getting kicked in the balls multiple times is better than it has any right to be, because it doesn't hurt as exponentially as it should based on how much the first kick hurts.

Eloquently expressed, sir.

So is Scarlett a worse singer or actor?

Posted by Ogami Itto Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 1:08 PM

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Rich S. Author Profile Page says ...

My favorite crazy star demand was Van Halen's venue contract that specified that their dressing room was to have a bowl of M&M's with all the brown ones removed. When asked why, I think David Lee Roth explained, "because brown M&M's are bullsh*t. You eat M&M's for the flavor, the crunch and the color. It's like brown M&Ms have a clear shell. You get cheated out of 1/3 the experience!"

Years later, Roth explained the real reason. It was to insure that the venue had actually read the contract. They didn't really want the M&Ms removed; it was enough if the venue reps just asked, "do you really want us to do that?"

That doesn't sound like ScarJo's problem, though.

Posted by Rich S. Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 1:23 PM

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bfm Author Profile Page says ...

The articles also says that it's a sparkling return to form for Woody. So is anything in it credible?

Posted by bfm Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 2:56 PM

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fielding Author Profile Page says ...

Actually, bfm, if you actually relied on more than just Wells' columns for info, you'd know that Vicky Cristina Barcelona will probably end up being the best-received film at Cannes. By the way, Jeff, when you were mentioning the scattered boos you heard at the end of the screening of VCB, why didn't you also mention the huge STANDING OVATION it got?

Posted by fielding Author Profile Page at May 20, 2008 5:10 PM

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nemo Author Profile Page says ...

"Years later, Roth explained the real reason. It was to insure that the venue had actually read the contract. They didn't really want the M&Ms removed; it was enough if the venue reps just asked, "do you really want us to do that?""

Very clever! I heard a similar story about John McCarthy, a computer science pioneer at Stanford who was famous for never reading any doctoral thesis by his students. To test this, one of his students put in the middle of his thesis a paragraph reading: "50 bucks if you read this, John." McCarthy never collected.

Posted by nemo Author Profile Page at May 21, 2008 8:07 AM

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