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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)

Craig's Peak

The major London papers have reviewed Quantum of Solace, the new 007 film, and the reactions are pretty good. Not ecstatic, but primarly enthusiastic and supportive.


One slight dissenter is the Telegraph's Mark Monahan who says the new film "lacks Casino Royale's narrative drive, and is less than the sum of its parts." He adds, however, that "those parts are often terrific. See it for them, and see it for Daniel Craig's fully-formed Bond: angry, icily unsentimental, and fleetingly borderline psychotic at the close."

Times Online critic James Christopher writes that "director Marc Forster has absorbed the lucrative lessons discovered in Martin Campbell's Casino Royale. He has also managed to pace his sequel much better.

"Royale felt slightly wheel-clamped by one too many longeurs. If anything, the crunching chase sequences in Quantum of Solace are even more magnificently dangerous. And the daredevil leaps and tumbles through glass roofs are just as sensational as the splintering high-speed pyrotechnics.

"But it's the amount of heartache and punishment that Craig's new Bond absorbs that makes him look so right for our times. Bond is no longer a work in progress. He is now the cruel, finished article."

LIkewise, the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw is somewhere between okay and pleased with the film -- he submits to the rock 'n' roll -- but is primarily a fan of Craig's performance.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 19, 2008 at 7:57 AM

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corey3rd Author Profile Page says ...

The promo pic does more to sell me on this Bond than the trailer.

Posted by corey3rd Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 10:13 AM

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Jake Author Profile Page says ...

Looks like the Times is split on this one:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4969426.ece

Posted by Jake Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 10:21 AM

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Doug Author Profile Page says ...

Remember when Bond used to be good-looking?
Not surprised the girl has her back to him.

Posted by Doug Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 2:18 PM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

Doug, do not think that being homosexual acquaints you with what women like.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 2:30 PM

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Sean Author Profile Page says ...

I think Craig is terrific, both in and out of Bond-dom, but if they'd given Pierce Brosnan these kinds of scripts he would have knocked them out of the park too.

Posted by Sean Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 4:37 PM

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Abbey Normal Author Profile Page says ...

We're all talking out of our asses here, since none of us have actually seen this, but I will nevertheless disagree with Sean. I don't think Brosnan has the chops to do what Craig does physically with the character. Craig brings the danger and anger in a way that the relatively effete Brosnan could never manage. These scripts work as well as they do partially--mostly, even--because of Craig's chunky unpredictability.

Posted by Abbey Normal Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 7:10 PM

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Jake Author Profile Page says ...

No, I think Sean's probably right to say that Brosnan could've handled a more serious Bond. It doesn't mean he would've had to play it exactly like Craig, since any deviation from formula would've gone a long way during his tenure. The bottom line is that, if Brosnan could sell a film like Die Another Day to the masses, he could've certainly made a go of an actual script.

Posted by Jake Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 7:36 PM

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Joshua Mooney Author Profile Page says ...

"But the gorgeous young women go on forever and they have backs like butter."
---David Thomson, "Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes"

Posted by Joshua Mooney Author Profile Page at October 20, 2008 9:28 AM

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