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)

Curse of Catsoulis

I was amused at how chief N.Y. Times critics Tony Scott and Manohla Dargis gave the task of reviewing Chris Smith's Collapse (which opens today in Manhattan) not to second-stringer Stephen Holden but third-stringer Jeanette Catsoulis. It's only the scariest and most riveting doc of the year -- a theoretical portrait of the world's end that will suck the air out of whatever room you happen to be sitting in. (Last week I called it "the thinking man's 2012").

Catsoulis is, of course, an excellent writer. But woe to the film looking for full-out Times consideration that gets reviewed by her, however smartly or perceptively. A Catsoulis review is a kiss of death. A black spot handed to a film distributor by Ben Gun or Long John Silver. By giving Collapse to Catsoulis, Scott-Dargis have essentially said to Times readers, "This is a fringe doc...an in-and-outer that mainstream audiences should perhaps ignore...not fully deserving of our attention." In other words they read it wrong.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 6, 2009 at 10:57 AM

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Chase Kahn Author Profile Page says ...

Catsoulis also reviewed "The Cove".

Posted by Chase Kahn Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 11:39 AM

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jgaspard Author Profile Page says ...

Easily the scariest trailer I've ever seen.

Posted by jgaspard Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 11:43 AM

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George Prager Author Profile Page says ...

And Holden gets to review stuff like KICKIN IT OLD SKOOL.

Posted by George Prager Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 11:47 AM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

Did you call it that or did the 2012 mashup video call it that. Just saying.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 11:52 AM

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Jeffrey Wells Author Profile Page says ...

I took credit for it anyway...fuck it.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 12:16 PM

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MilkMan Author Profile Page says ...

I've been hearing that civilization is going to end for my entire life and I'm not buying it anymore. If it does happen, it's going to happen when everyone least expects it and in a way that no one predicted. Besides, I'm not Christian. You Christians can't wait for the world to end, because that's the only way you're going to finally have faith in your loony, fictional belief system that's based on some tall tales a gaggle of homeless bums used to tell each other in the desert between wine binges. The world is shit, it's always been shit, and it will continue to be shit long after each and every person who visits this site has passed away and forgotten by subsequent generations.

Posted by MilkMan Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 12:47 PM

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BurmaShave Author Profile Page says ...

Haha touche. We stole it fair and square.

Posted by BurmaShave Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 12:59 PM

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Colin Author Profile Page says ...

I'd like to use that as a toast for a wedding, if you don't mind of course, MilkMan.

Posted by Colin Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 3:03 PM

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btwnproductions Author Profile Page says ...

It's a decent review, though, and longer than her usual pieces. It gets about the same ink as the poorly reviewed GOATS.

Posted by btwnproductions Author Profile Page at November 6, 2009 3:22 PM

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Glenn Kenny Author Profile Page says ...

It's tough for Scott and Dargis, having to be both writers AND assignment editors. Sometimes stuff slips through the cracks...

Posted by Glenn Kenny Author Profile Page at November 7, 2009 4:41 AM

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Krazy Eyes Author Profile Page says ...

I think Catsoulis is an appropriate choice for a documentary opening on one screen and looking at a $6,000 weekend. In other words Collapse is now a fringe doc...an in-and-outer that mainstream audiences should perhaps ignore...not fully deserving of our attention.

Posted by Krazy Eyes Author Profile Page at November 7, 2009 3:36 PM

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COCO Author Profile Page says ...

Face it....it's all a fucking house of cards.....false promises.....prophets with no shame.....food meant to kill us over time, full of preservatives, sodium and
chemicals you don't want to know about......a consumer society that doesn't satisfy anymore......
the only thing to do is survive each day.....meh....
popcorn anyone....Viggo and ''The Road'' is on the way.

Posted by COCO Author Profile Page at November 8, 2009 9:06 AM

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