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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)

Upcoming

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Waiting for Armageddon

Wonderful World

Youth in Revolt

January 15

January 22

Drool

Extraordinary Measures

The Girl on the Train

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"What's not to like about James Franco and Seth Rogen's Beavis and Butthead routine, slobbed on the couch in front of this year's contenders? Their giggling and guffawing at The Reader is somehow more damning (and more exposing of the film's overweening pomposity) than a thousand bad reviews." -- the Guardian's Xan Brooks during an Oscar-show live blog.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 23, 2009 at 8:09 AM

comment #1

Josh Massey says ...

I thought one of the night's biggest laughs was Jackman's sci-fi Reader dance at the beginning, claiming he hadn't yet seen the film.

Posted by Josh Massey at February 23, 2009 8:14 AM

comment #2

PCP_Patriots says ...

Did others, after watching the funny bit with Franco and Rogan and that other guy (not an actor or director, we forget you already) feel a cringe since wasn't the Oscar's once a classy show and a family event? Now it is a pathetic sitcom or a comedy film that should be left for the theaters!

Posted by PCP_Patriots at February 23, 2009 9:04 AM

comment #3

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

Um, it was pretty classy, PCP Patriots, what are you talking about? I didn't see any boobs or sex onstage.

Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk at February 23, 2009 9:25 AM

comment #4

PCP_Patriots says ...

Talking about young boys having sex with Nazis kind of made my mouth drop. Funny stuff for a comedy at the theaters, but definately not classy and definately not family.

Posted by PCP_Patriots at February 23, 2009 9:33 AM

comment #5

DarthCorleone says ...

PCP >> That was part of the subject matter of the film. I'll take open discussion of a Best Picture nominee in an artists' forum over catering to some minuscule juvenile percentage of the home audience that refuses to acknowledge that - *GASP* - some Oscar-nominated films are rated R and have sex and violence in them. Seriously - when has the Academy Awards ever been a "family" event? Maybe that was before my time.

And it was Janusz Kaminski, just so you know. He's one of the best DPs in the business.

Posted by DarthCorleone at February 23, 2009 10:07 AM

comment #6

VoiceOfReason says ...

When Franco announced the winner and messed up the title and Rogan burst into laughter... That was the best Jr High moment of the night.

Posted by VoiceOfReason at February 23, 2009 10:20 AM

comment #7

PCP_Patriots says ...

DarthCorleone, the Janusz Kaminski joke I did was, well, I guess not too funny. :-)

anyways, point taken, have not seen The Reader so I didn't get the connection of the joke to the movie.

But my only point was that it probably wasn't something for the kiddies (i.e. primetime television ... though to be honest I don't watch the sitcoms and such so maybe it is in line with that).

Posted by PCP_Patriots at February 23, 2009 10:20 AM

comment #8