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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

After The Fall

"The real reason for The Soloist getting bumped into March '09? Every single test, every single cut, the scores kept going down. It's a non-audience picture and just a tank." -- a good and trusted fellow who tends to pass along good stuff.

And yet I wonder. How problematic could Joe Wright's film be if it's scheduled to open the AFI Fest a few days from now?

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM

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TVMCCA Author Profile Page says ...

Fascinating. I would have thought the combination of Susannah Grant (someone who loves formula and Hollywood convention) and Joe Wright (who isn't a shabby director, as PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT demonstrated)--plus the actors--qualifiesTHE SOLOIST as primo mainstream awards-season fare.

So this means that either: a. BENJAMIN BUTTON reinvents David Fincher as the new Zemeckis or b. the speculation that Dreamworks is being punished for leaving the Paramount lot is correct.

Posted by TVMCCA Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 11:06 AM

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huntermdaniels Author Profile Page says ...

I can corroborate that this film has been doing a lot of test screenings. Didn't go to any. But I've been invited to...4...I think. Only 2 films have screened that often. Nacho Libre and Case 39. The latter film STILL hasn't seen release.

Posted by huntermdaniels Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 11:49 AM

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crsryan Author Profile Page says ...

A) Wouldn't Zemeckis rather be reinvented as the new Fincher?

B) Paramount probably wouldn't do this over the strident objection of Tony Stark, so as great as Wright as, he's probably just made a somewhat non-commercial film -- the end.

Posted by crsryan Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 11:51 AM

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The InSneider Author Profile Page says ...

Damn, Case 39... there's a blast from the past. I've been looking forward to that. Ever see Christian Alvart's Antibodies. Good stuff. Now that's a movie that should be remade!

Posted by The InSneider Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 12:30 PM

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George Prager Author Profile Page says ...

But I was so looking forward to Jamie Foxx prancing around like a tit during awards season.

Posted by George Prager Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 12:34 PM

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EDouglas Author Profile Page says ...

Then why on earth are DreamWorks screening this during the Hollywood Film Festival? If it's that bad wouldn't reviews from the film festival kill any chances it has when it opens next year? I hope they're wrong... I'm a fan of Joe Wright and Downey Jr., and it would be nice if he was on a roll and not back to making movies like "Fur" (UGH)

Posted by EDouglas Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 12:49 PM

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The InSneider Author Profile Page says ...

RDJ was quite good in Fur!

Posted by The InSneider Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 1:23 PM

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romeoisbleeding Author Profile Page says ...

This is hard to believe. Just the other day you posted that someone said it was a very good movie.. I have read on blogs reviews from people who saw it at early screenings and loved it. I seriously doubt it will tank. The book is selling very well. It will find an audience. It would be funny if it turns out being more successful than some other movies that still get a chance at Oscar nominations.

Posted by romeoisbleeding Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 3:11 PM

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iamwhoiam Author Profile Page says ...

I'm surprised because i heard good things from people who went to screenings. I guess we'll know in two weeks.

And yes, Downey was terrific in Fur. In fact, he was terrific in every movie he's done, regardless of the film's quality.

Posted by iamwhoiam Author Profile Page at October 19, 2008 5:10 PM

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