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Barry Lyndon: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Read more: Barry Lyndon: 50th Anniversary Edition“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.”
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Assholes of the Cinema: The Entire Cast, Women in Love (1970)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: The Entire Cast, Women in Love (1970)Never before in the history of motion pictures has more been said about love without a single character doing a damn thing about it.
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The Unsung: Maxwell Brock, A Bucket of Blood (1959)
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Read more: The Unsung: Maxwell Brock, A Bucket of Blood (1959)Hippies or beatniks. Sure, it’s like choosing between Lou Gehrig’s Disease and glioblastoma, but it’s a debate that needs settling.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Love Story (1970)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Love Story (1970)If you can imagine plastic and cardboard having a meet-cute, you can imagine Love Story. A movie where holding hands in the park and exchanging cringe-worthy banter constitutes great passion and defiance.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)Not so long ago, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Four, Hollywood saw fit to release a major motion picture (MGM! CinemaScope!) that endorsed, sanctioned, and ultimately made light of kidnapping, rape, and deep, unshakable misogyny. Women as property.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Crimes of the Heart (1986)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Crimes of the Heart (1986)The nominations for Sissy Spacek (Best Actress) and Tess Harper (Best Supporting Actress) are inexplicable enough, but to learn that this slapdash, magnolia-scented monstrosity also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981?
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Great Moments, Bad Cinema: Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
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Read more: Great Moments, Bad Cinema: Picking Up the Pieces (2000)Ever the completist, I decided one lonely evening to finally watch 2000’s Picking Up the Pieces, a rare bird of a picture where Woody Allen appeared as an actor, but neither wrote nor directed.
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The Unsung: Annette, The Last Showgirl (2024)
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Read more: The Unsung: Annette, The Last Showgirl (2024)In a movie that, like Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, accurately validates the idea that the best stories are not about the ascent, but rather the fall, the ultimate privilege is in the further realization that absent the broken, we’d have no real stories to tell.
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Brewster McCloud (1970)
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Read more: Brewster McCloud (1970)As the years slip away and the specter of death looms, nostalgia takes over with increasing ferocity. There were times when it merely tapped me on the shoulder as a subtle reminder of better days.
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The ABC’s Of Death Wish 3
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Read more: The ABC’s Of Death Wish 3I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Kersey.