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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)

Loose Talk

20th Century Fox, a friend tells me, is a pensive, unhappy place to be right now. "Agents all say they're the studio of last resort, they don't pay money, and Rupert Murdoch has said they're all on a lifeboat and there are going to be radical changes there. He's unhappy, and when he gets this way he fires people." The friend points out that the contact of Fox president/COO Peter Chernin "has been up for weeks and he still hasn't renewed it. I think he and [Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman] Tom Rothman might leave."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM

comment #1

ZayTonday Author Profile Page says ...

Tom Rothman leaving would be the best thing to happen to Fox in a LONG time.

Posted by ZayTonday Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 11:43 AM

comment #2

crsryan Author Profile Page says ...

Seriously. For the last couple of years, Fox has made crap movie after crap movie. I've started to just skip stuff like TDTESS because I know there's no functioning creative brain over there.

Posted by crsryan Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 11:55 AM

comment #3

actionman Author Profile Page says ...

Well, when something as expensive as Australia totally bombs, someone's head is gonna roll...

Posted by actionman Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 12:16 PM

comment #4

rgmax99 Author Profile Page says ...

Longtime coming...

Fox movies have become as bland as out of date pimento cheese spread. One clunker after another...

Posted by rgmax99 Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 1:34 PM

comment #5

btwnproductions Author Profile Page says ...

But up until this year they were making money. The boxoffice slide caught up with the creative one.

Posted by btwnproductions Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 2:05 PM

comment #6

jse33 Author Profile Page says ...

Unless The Day the Earth Stood Still can cross the line, they'll end up with only 1 movie grossing over $100 million in the US. (Dr. Horton Hears a Who) Ouch.

Posted by jse33 Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 2:28 PM

comment #7

bmcintire Author Profile Page says ...

TDTESS will cross $100M, but it may have to limp across that line. Done better, this thing could have been huge.

Posted by bmcintire Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 4:57 PM

comment #8

ZayTonday Author Profile Page says ...

I'll never forgive Rothman for fucking up X-Men 3.

Posted by ZayTonday Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 7:02 PM

comment #9

TVMCCA Author Profile Page says ...

jse33 wrote:
Unless The Day the Earth Stood Still can cross the line, they'll end up with only 1 movie grossing over $100 million in the US. (Dr. Horton Hears a Who) Ouch.

Wouldn't MARLEY AND ME be the second?

Posted by TVMCCA Author Profile Page at December 11, 2008 11:16 PM

comment #10

D.Z. Author Profile Page says ...

Actually, this is a "good" year for FOX, since they've been saving the over-priced bombs for '09. Seen Dragon Ball's trailer(s) yet? http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2009/DEFGH/Dragonball/trailer.php

Posted by D.Z. Author Profile Page at December 12, 2008 4:37 AM

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