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)

Speaks For Itself

I was told last night that Fernando Meirelles' Blindness, which I didn't much care for when I saw it at the Cannes Film Festival, has dropped the Danny Glover narration track. That's a good thing. As I wrote last May, "I was hoping for a film that would rigorously avoid any attempt at pushing metaphor into viewer's faces. That is precisely what Blindness does by way of [Glover's] narration voice-over." I'll be catching the new version on Saturday night.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 4, 2008 at 8:14 AM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

I was literally just nervous about having to listen to his gruff slurred speech for two hours.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 8:35 AM

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Krazy Eyes Author Profile Page says ...

Hopefully they don't replace the Glover narration with one by Morgan Freeman.

Posted by Krazy Eyes Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 8:57 AM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

This isn't the right thread, but Wells I thought you would get a kick out of this: right now, Fox News is showing the Sarah Palin bio video that was supposed to play at the RNC last night. Narrated by Jon Voight.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 9:04 AM

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Rich S. Author Profile Page says ...

In the director's cut, will it turn out that Julianne Moore is really a replicant?

Posted by Rich S. Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 9:41 AM

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Richardson Author Profile Page says ...

Burma - am I the only one who thinks it's funny that they're campaigning on how they'll accomplish so much and what great leaders they are, and they can't even keep their own event on schedule at all? (They're also spreading the story that the teleprompters broke for both Palin and Guiliani, and it shows how great they spoke without teleprompters. I missed the end of her speech, but he was clearly reading from the paper in front of him, so I'm not sure how that counts as a positive... and it still doesn't explain how they didn't fix the teleprompters.)

Posted by Richardson Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 9:50 AM

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/3rtfu11 Author Profile Page says ...

Wonder how much the tone of the movie will change without a VO?

Posted by /3rtfu11 Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 10:27 AM

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Jeremy Smith Author Profile Page says ...

McKellar's screenplay is still heavy on the metaphor. Adding a narration to what I saw last week would've been an act of violence on the viewer.

Posted by Jeremy Smith Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 10:43 AM

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actionman Author Profile Page says ...

I am very anxious to see this film. City of God and The Constant Gardener were both four star films as far as I'm concerned. Also a big fan of Ruffalo. Looking forward despite the mixed buzz.

Posted by actionman Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 11:49 AM

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The Winchester Author Profile Page says ...

Damn you, Rich S, you beat me to it. As soon as I saw "Loss of VO" that was my immediate thought.

Posted by The Winchester Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 11:55 AM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

Richardson, it's a total clusterfuck and I'm loving every minute of it. I'd cut them some slack for having to condense because of Gustav, except these are the dbags praying for rain at Invesco Field. Also that was them shamelessly taking advantage of a natural disaster, it just happened to blow over and blow up in their faces.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 12:11 PM

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erniesouchak Author Profile Page says ...

"Blindness" bored the shit out of me. The voiceover, as laughable as it was, was the least of its problems.

Posted by erniesouchak Author Profile Page at September 4, 2008 6:42 PM

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