Most Wanted
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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)

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)
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
(Edwards, 1972)
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)

Hurt Dispute

Let's review the burgeoning Hurt Locker situation so far. The Toronto Star's Peter Howell started the buzz with his 8.31 rave. Then today Variety's Nick Vivarelli reported that Kathryn Bigelow's bomb squad actioner "gave the Lido a jolt and proposed itself as the Iraq pic that might break through to American auds."

I also got an e-mail today from cinema2000's Nuno Artunes saying that "our correspondent at the Venice Film Festival has just written to say Bigelow's movie is the best so far at the competition -- 5 stars out of five, and he's not easy to please."

I'm mentioning all this only to put the Hurt Locker pan from Variety's sourpuss critic Derek Elley in perspective. Nobody's "right," everybody has their persepctive, etc., but how could all these other guys be going "wow" and "whoo-hoo" and then aong comes Elley, less bowled over by the rush of it, and says "war may be hell, but watching war movies can also be hell, especially when they don't get to the point."

The best competition movie of the Venice Film Festival so far vs. a hellish unoriginal viewing experience. That's one hell of a gap. The Hurt Locker will screen for the TIFF press on Tuesday.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM

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MilkMan Author Profile Page says ...

Looking forward to the Hurt Locker. Jeremy Renner is a stud. He was great in 28 Weeks Later and 12 and Holding. Never thought he would've matured into such a credible leading man, but he has.

Posted by MilkMan Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 4:46 PM

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p.Vice Author Profile Page says ...

I wonder if the spoiler-nazis are going to cry foul since it's pretty easy to deduce from Elley's review that Guy Pearce gets torched in the first reel.

I admired Renner's work in Dahmer but I'd be more interested in this movie if Michael Shannon were starring in it instead. He needs a movie like this pronto.

Posted by p.Vice Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 6:02 PM

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storymark Author Profile Page says ...

Nice Trolling there, not even giving people a chance to not read the review, so as to avoid any spoilers.

Not that this is a surprise from you....

Posted by storymark Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 6:27 PM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

p.Vice, I swear to all that is holy I will shove that lower cased p up your upper-cased ass.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 11:13 PM

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free games Author Profile Page says ...

I'd be more interested in this movie if Michael Shannon were starring in it instead.

Posted by free games Author Profile Page at October 27, 2009 2:11 PM

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