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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)

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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

January 8

Bitch Slap

Waiting for Armageddon

Wonderful World

Youth in Revolt

January 15

January 22

Drool

Extraordinary Measures

The Girl on the Train

2012/Collapse

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 1, 2009 at 7:32 PM

comment #1

Pynchon8 says ...

Source?

Clever but I've no interest in either movie.

Posted by Pynchon8 at November 1, 2009 7:53 PM

comment #2

Jeffrey Wells says ...

Well, then you really need to work up some interest in Collapse -- the thinking man's 2012.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells at November 1, 2009 8:35 PM

comment #3

Admiral82 says ...

You had me at "2012."

Posted by Admiral82 at November 1, 2009 9:20 PM

comment #4

DeeZee says ...

I dunno how the fuck it happened, but Boondock Saints 2 made almost half a million, giving it the second highest PTA after Paranormal Activity.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2009&wknd=44&p=.htm
It was a problem for these news organizations to create "reliable, informative material" when there weren't budget cuts.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010644.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
3-d glasses get a new look.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010688.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
That's a lot of money for a short-term gimmick.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010655.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
The Guccis don't like Ridley making a movie about them.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010692.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Congrats, Stevie.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010713.html?categoryid=1985&cs=1
And Mr. Phelps.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i26911e62ce1ee0f7762212570b21e853
Katie's comeback?
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010708.html?categoryid=1238&cs=1
Why can FOX front the music rights dough for Glee, but not WKRP?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i26911e62ce1ee0f73e4fbc1554ea6388
Anyone wanna pay Polanski's bail?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i26911e62ce1ee0f782a9c69d8caae235
Grumpy Old Men: The Next Generation?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i422dde68f61e91f22bede12cc90e1125
R.I.P. Pierre Cabrol, courtesy of the New Bev tweet.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-pierre-cabrol1-2009nov01,0,5753525.story

Anyway, I liked the one with the bongo music more, but this is sort of amusing in its own way.

Posted by DeeZee at November 1, 2009 9:21 PM

comment #5

Sammyray says ...

What are all of these end-of-the-world disaster movies saying about our collective unconsciousness?

http://sammyray.com/353/awaiting-armageddon/

Posted by Sammyray at November 1, 2009 9:33 PM

comment #6

televisiontears says ...

Ahhhh!!! Why didn't cable news tell me that our failed economy would cause a torrent of fireballs to rain down mercilessly and sink California into the ocean?! If I would have known this shit, I wouldn't have bought that place on the Upper East Side with forty-seven in my checking and twelve bucks in savings. WE DIDN'T LISTEN!

I just got done stocking my basement with canned food and bottled water for the inevitable swine flu apocalypse, and now I have this bullshit to prepare for?

Posted by televisiontears at November 1, 2009 10:21 PM

comment #7

QualityGibberish says ...

Still got beans and rice left over from Y2K. DO NOT need more "Collapse" bullshit. Hey, the Broncos aren't going undefeated all season after all. JUST LIKE I SAID THEY WOULDN'T!!! I'm friggin' Nostradamus, too. But seriously, when has so-called "civilization" NOT been a disaster?

Posted by QualityGibberish at November 2, 2009 8:03 AM

comment #8

Moises Chiullan says ...

Jeff, 2012 is 2 hours 40 minutes from what I've been told. Correct me if you think the following speculative math is wrong. Someone could watch Collapse, call a friend raving right after, buy tickets for the next show while they wait for the friend to arrive, and then see Collapse a second time in the same number of minutes on Earth required to see 2012.

Posted by Moises Chiullan at November 2, 2009 10:20 AM