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)

Mr. Grant

I mentioned this two or three years ago, but I'm still struck by Cary Grant's looking-forward remarks after being handed his Life Achievement Oscar on April 4, 1970. Right at the start of Hollywood's golden era, just as things were kicking in big-time, all the great '70s film yet to be made. And here's what he said.


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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM

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Aladdin Sane Author Profile Page says ...

He must have been thinking about Barbarella when he made that comment.

Posted by Aladdin Sane Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 4:17 PM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

I wish he'd kept acting, the 1970s could have found some amazing uses for him.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 4:23 PM

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George Prager Author Profile Page says ...

Grant in The Apple Dumpling Gang would've been serious OWNAGE.

Posted by George Prager Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 4:25 PM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

Yes Grant and Tim Conway fucking COMMAND YOU.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 4:28 PM

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Cadavra Author Profile Page says ...

Greatest. Star. Ever. No contest.

Posted by Cadavra Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 5:06 PM

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MilkMan Author Profile Page says ...

I wonder how much acid he took before he came out on stage. Maybe he looked out at the audience and saw Gig Young, except Gig Young didn't look like Gig Young, he looked like a giant brown paper bag. Or Jon Voight has three mouths, one of them silently telling Grant to get off of the stage in Esperanto.

Posted by MilkMan Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 5:12 PM

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Chase Kahn Author Profile Page says ...

just watched 'To Catch a Thief' today...

Posted by Chase Kahn Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 5:35 PM

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ROTC Author Profile Page says ...

"Mr. Grant"

When I saw that headline, I swear I thought this was going to be a post about Ed Asner.

Posted by ROTC Author Profile Page at February 20, 2009 5:38 PM

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TVMCCA Author Profile Page says ...

I remember reading that Grant was definitely interested in playing Frank Galvin in THE VERDICT. Would have been a better valedictory picture than WALK DON'T RUN.

Posted by TVMCCA Author Profile Page at February 21, 2009 2:08 AM

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renorambler Author Profile Page says ...

To Catch a Thief is hardly a great Hitchcock but I sure adore it anyway. I just watched it again earlier this week myself.

Posted by renorambler Author Profile Page at February 21, 2009 7:43 AM

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