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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

Atlas, Perlman Split

CHUD's Russ Fischer and Cinematical's Kim Voynar are both reporting that Vadim Perlman won't be directing an Atlas Shrugged feature (a deal initially reported by Variety's Michael Fleming in September '07) with Angelina Jolie in the lead role -- a dicey-sounding prospect to start with, given the likely length and breadth of it.


Voynar has written that she "can say with as much certainty as one can possibly have about a situation like this that the decision to step down was on Perelman's side."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 19, 2008 at 9:15 AM

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Unison Author Profile Page says ...

Perelman doesn't strike me as the man for this particular job, but I do hope this project gets off the ground at some point. I don't adore the book, but it could make for an interesting film, for sure.

Posted by Unison Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:01 AM

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Christian Licorice Author Profile Page says ...

hey jeff

its been a few days and you havent said a word about the passing of Stan Winston - what gives?

is it because the Olsen twins were not somehow connected to his passing?

Posted by Christian Licorice Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:06 AM

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Fien Print Author Profile Page says ...

It raises a key question:

Last week we were discussing who this generation's Mervyn LeRoy might be.

But if it comes to adapting Ayn Rand's drivel to the big screen, who is this generation's King Vidor?

Not Vadim Perlman, apparently...

Posted by Fien Print Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:09 AM

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Bocephus Author Profile Page says ...

On the internet, there is a mysterious feature called the "scroll bar." By pulling it down, you can actually see messages from the past!

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/06/stan_winston_19.php

Posted by Bocephus Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:15 AM

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CinemaPhreek Author Profile Page says ...

Christian Licorice - what Bocephus said and I will add let us know how that shoe tastes...

Posted by CinemaPhreek Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:20 AM

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thevisceral Author Profile Page says ...

They told Perelman he had to read the book. I would've bailed too.

Posted by thevisceral Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:53 AM

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Redmond Author Profile Page says ...

Wow, did Christian Licorice's comment really just happen?

Posted by Redmond Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 10:59 AM

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Terry McCarty Author Profile Page says ...

Fien Print wrote:
But if it comes to adapting Ayn Rand's drivel to the big screen, who is this generation's King Vidor?

Memories coming back to me now about how Michael Cimino once wanted to remake THE FOUNTAINHEAD.

Posted by Terry McCarty Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 11:00 AM

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nemo Author Profile Page says ...

High school libertarians and self-described geniuses and masters of the universe of all ages shed a tear at this tragic news.

Posted by nemo Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 11:12 AM

comment #10

DavidF Author Profile Page says ...

Wasn't Perelman also all set to do Eyes of the Dragon?

How come all his ambitious literary projects keep folding?

Posted by DavidF Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 11:13 AM

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DavidF Author Profile Page says ...

Sorry - The Talisman, not Eyes of the Dragon. Same question, however....

Posted by DavidF Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 11:14 AM

comment #12

Mr. Buckles Author Profile Page says ...

And ladies and gentlemen, here's my imitation of Ayn Rand:

"ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME!!!!"

That said, I always thought that The Fountainhead was a perfect project for Cruise, Jolie and Pitt. I'll let you do the casting.

ME!

Posted by Mr. Buckles Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 11:41 AM

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Unison Author Profile Page says ...

Whatever you can say about the book's ideas, you can't deny that trying to turn it into a film would be an extremely interesting endeavor.

How, for example, do you film that speech? I would love to see a director like Richard Linklater, Hal Hartley or David Cronenberg try it, even if they each would likely find Rand's ideas somewhat repellent.

Posted by Unison Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 11:50 AM

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Christian Licorice Author Profile Page says ...

pardon mon dieu...hey i just had a kid and i am sleep deprived...

Posted by Christian Licorice Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 12:04 PM

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MilkMan Author Profile Page says ...

Congratulations, Christian Licorice. My wife gave birth to a baby girl a little over a year ago. I had no idea how much I was going to love her.

The only thing worse than a Scientologist is an self-avowed Objectionivist, or whatever they call themselves. All I know is that everyone I have ever met who is an Ayn Rand fan usually fits a certain character-type: went to private school, where they were mildly popular, then went to college and found that they weren't as cool or smart of they had been led to believe by their high school peers, at which point they become disillusioned with the entire universe, thus primed and ready for The Fountainhead, allowing themselves to be comforted in a blanket of self-righteous alienation.

Posted by MilkMan Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 12:50 PM

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Mr. Buckles Author Profile Page says ...

If the Jolie-Pitts produced The Fountainhead, they could call it Meet Howard Roark.

You can just see how awful yet completely watchable it would be (just like Meet Joe Black).

Posted by Mr. Buckles Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 1:30 PM

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Legowombat Author Profile Page says ...

Good call Nemo. The only book more often cited than 'Atlas Shrugged' by socially-inept, self-described geniuses, (always with no visible evidence of the enormous talent of their intellect, including any form of success in any field), would be Colin Wilson's 1956 work 'The Outsider', which offers them justification for their perceived superiority above others.

Posted by Legowombat Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 2:49 PM

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Redmond Author Profile Page says ...

Congrats, Chrisitan. Have a one-year-old. Know the drill.

Posted by Redmond Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 3:31 PM

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EOTW Author Profile Page says ...

Probably not possible to do it justice. I'm not a rabid fan of the book, but it has its merits. Jolie is perfect, though, I am not sure about the rest of the cast. I really thank that Jhon Hamm of MAD MEN would be great as Hank Rearen, but he's kinda playing a Rand character in the show (and AS and AR has alreayd been named dropped). I'd hate to see Pitt cast in this thing, especially in the John Galt role. Someone unknown should play him, I think.

Not sure who could direct it and make it work. Malick? Nolan? Ang Lee? Schnabel? David Lynch would make a crazed version of the thing. No one's going to go see it anyway. Get that guy who did THE LIVES OF OTHERS. Why not?

Posted by EOTW Author Profile Page at June 19, 2008 5:17 PM

comment #20

Kim Voynar Author Profile Page says ...

Ah, Milkman, you've missed out on an entire subsect of Objectivists -- the socially awkward, very intelligent white male who stumbles upon Rand in his late teens, usually through "Atlas," and has a "Eureka!" moment wherein he suddenly realizes that the reason for his miserable social existence is, quite simply, that he's vastly superior to the morons surrounding him. He then latches onto Objectivism with a gusto.

These guys immediately read everything Rand's ever written -- including the non-fiction -- and then wander onto Objectivist boards where they start making lengthy posts they think sound intelligent, being sure to use lots of Rand's pet phrases like "rational egoism," "A is A" and "that's a straw man" to fit in. They quote Rand verbatim in online discussions -- kinda scary, actually.

I should know, I used to be an Objectivist, and any single female Objectivist is immediately targeted by every male Objectivist within a 2,000 mile radius. I've dated more than one of this type of Objectivist, and then I got fed up with their ginormous egos and the way they rationalize every abhorrent, antisocial personal characteristic they possess as evidence of their amazing superiority.

And -- side note -- have you ever tried to read poetry written by an Objectivist? "I think that I shall never see; a thing as lovely as philosophy ..." Urp.

On the bright side, I married one of them, and then shortly thereafter we both got over our mutual Objectivism and became raving liberals, which pretty much got us banished from Objectivist circles. Ah, the tragedy.

Posted by Kim Voynar Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 6:34 PM

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