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The Citizen Kane Book (1973)Pauline Kael
Raising Kane
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Citizen Kane: The Shooting Script (1973)Orson Welles, Herman Mankiewicz, and Pauline Kael, ...
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A Minority Movie
- La Chinoise (1967 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard

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The Corrupt and the Primitive
- Joanna (1968 Film) by Michael Sarne
- Faces (1968 Film) by John Cassavetes

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The Concealed Art of Carol Reed
- Oliver! (1968 Film) by Carol Reed


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A Sign of Life
- Shame (1968 Film) by Ingmar Bergman

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A Great Folly, and a Small One
- Intolerance (1916 Film) by D.W. Griffith
- Charlie Bubbles (1967 Film) by Albert Finney



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The Freedom to Make Product
- "Thirty Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia" (1968 Film) by Joseph McGrath
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968 Film) by Clive Donner
- P.J. (1968 Film) by John Guillermin
- The Queens (1966 Film) by Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, and Antonio Pietrangeli, ...


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The Old Wave
- Benjamin (1968 Film) by Michel Deville
- No Way to Treat a Lady (1968 Film) by Jack Smight


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Lioness in Winter
- The Lion in Winter (1968 Film) by Anthony Harvey

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The Missing West
- Shalako (1968 Film) by Edward Dmytryk

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Muddling Through
- The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968 Film) by Michael Anderson
- The Split (1968 Film) by Gordon Flemyng

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Metamorphosis of the Beatles
- Yellow Submarine (1968 Film) by George Dunning and Dick Emery

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Weekend in Hell
- Weekend (1967 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard



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Cripes!
- Star! (1968 Film) by Robert Wise
- Bullitt (1968 Film) by Peter Yates
- The Boston Strangler (1968 Film) by Richard Fleischer

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Bravo!
- Funny Girl (1968 Film) by William Wyler

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Elfskin
- The Comic (1969 Film) by Carl Reiner

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Exiles
- Z (1969 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras
- Alfred the Great (1969 Film) by Clive Donner

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Gloria, the Girl Without Hope
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969 Film) by Sydney Pollack
- John and Mary (1969 Film) by Peter Yates
- Gaily, Gaily (1969 Film) by Norman Jewison


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Overkill?
- The Stalking Moon (1968 Film) by Robert Mulligan

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Saintliness
- Simon of the Desert (1965 Film) by Luis Bunuel

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The Lady from Across the Sea
- Model Shop (1969 Film) by Jacques Demy


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Filmed Theatre
- The Sea Gull (1968 Film) by Sidney Lumet


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Son of Little Caesar
- The Brotherhood (1968 Film) by Martin Ritt

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He Walks in Beauty
- Mayerling (1968 Film) by Terence Young
- Hell in the Pacific (1968 Film) by John Boorman




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The Once and Future King?
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 Film) by Herbert Ross
- Elvira Madigan (1967 Film) by Bo Widerberg
- Adalen 31 (1969 Film) by Bo Widerberg

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Blood and Snow
- In the Year of the Pig (1968 Film) by Emile de Antonio
- Downhill Racer (1969 Film) by Michael Ritchie

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Kazan's Latest Arrangements
- The Arrangement (1969 Film) by Elia Kazan

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The Bourgeoisie and the Rabble
- The Unfaithful Wife (1969 Film) by Claude Chabrol
- Futz (1969 Film) by Tom O'Horgan
- All the Loving Couples (1969 Film) by Mack Bing
- Popcorn (1969 Film) by Peter Clifton

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Waiting for Orgy
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969 Film) by Paul Mazursky

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Off with the Statues' Heads!
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969 Film) by Richard Attenborough
- The Bed Sitting Room (1969 Film) by Richard Lester
- A Walk with Love and Death (1969 Film) by John Huston
- De Sade (1969 Film) by Cyril Endfield, Gordon Hessler, and Roger Corman, ...


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Somebody Else's Success
- Paint Your Wagon (1969 Film) by Joshua Logan
- Lions Love (1969 Film) by Agnes Varda



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Trends and Paroxysms
- A Married Couple (1969 Film) by Allan King
- End of the Road (1970 Film) by Aram Avakian

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The Beauty of Destruction
- Zabriskie Point (1970 Film) by Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Looking Glass War (1969 Film) by Frank Pierson



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Blessed Profanity
- M*A*S*H (1970 Film) by Robert Altman
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969 Film) by Charles Jarrott

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The Man Who Loved War
- Patton (1970 Film) by Franklin J. Schaffner
- Hospital (1970 Film) by Frederick Wiseman


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Fellini's Mondo Trasho
- Fellini Satyricon (1969 Film) by Federico Fellini

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Scavengers with Computers
- The Adventurers (1970 Film) by Lewis Gilbert
- Airport (1970 Film) by George Seaton
- The Boys in the Band (1970 Film) by William Friedkin

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Lust for "Art"
- Women in Love (1969 Film) by Ken Russell


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Notes on New Actors, New Movies
- Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970 Film) by Frank Perry
- The Touch (1971 Film) by Ingmar Bergman
- Doc (1971 Film) by Frank Perry
- Born to Win (1971 Film) by Ivan Passer

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Peter Brook's "Night of the Living Dead"
- King Lear (1971 Film) by Peter Brook
- Man in the Wilderness (1971 Film) by Richard C. Sarafian
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971 Film) by Robert Stevenson

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The Fall and Rise of Vittorio De Sica
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970 Film) by Vittorio De Sica


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How Boys Grow Up
- Bed and Board (1970 Film) by Francois Truffaut
- Promise at Dawn (1970 Film) by Jules Dassin


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Megalomaniacs
- We Still Kill the Old Way (1967 Film) by Elio Petri
- Husbands (1970 Film) by John Cassavetes


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Note on Heart and Mind

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Genius
- The Music Lovers (1971 Film) by Ken Russell


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Varieties of Paranoia

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Misanthropic Movies

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Eric Rohmer's Refinement
- Claire's Knee (1970 Film) by Eric Rohmer
- Wanda (1971 Film) by Barbara Loden
- A New Leaf (1971 Film) by Elaine May

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The Poetry of Images
- The Conformist (1970 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci
- The Andromeda Strain (1971 Film) by Robert Wise


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A Bagel with a Bite Out of It
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971 Film) by Norman Jewison

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El Poto---Head Comics
- El Topo (1970 Film) by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Winging It
- Billy Jack (1971 Film) by Tom Laughlin

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A Movie Classic Is Not Nothing
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971 Film) by John Schlesinger

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Movies in Movies
- The Last Picture Show (1971 Film) by Peter Bogdanovich
- The Last Movie (1971 Film) by Dennis Hopper
- Skin Game (1971 Film) by Paul Bogart

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Helen of Troy, Sexual Warrior
- The Trojan Women (1971 Film) by Mihalis Kakogiannis

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Louis Malle's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
- A Murmur of the Heart (1971 Film) by Louis Malle
- The Debut (1970 Film) by Gleb Panfilov
- T.R. Baskin (1971 Film) by Herbert Ross

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Urban Gothic
- The French Connection (1971 Film) by William Friedkin

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Notes on Black Movies
- Black Girl (1972 Film) by Ossie Davis
- Superfly (1972 Film) by Gordon Parks, Jr.
- Farewell Uncle Tom (1971 Film) by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi

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New Thresholds, New Anatomies
- The Heartbreak Kid (1972 Film) by Elaine May
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972 Film) by Ronald Neame and Irwin Allen
- Child's Play (1972 Film) by Sidney Lumet
- Traffic (1971 Film) by Jacques Tati



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Killers and Thieves
- Macbeth (1971 Film) by Roman Polanski
- The Hot Rock (1972 Film) by Peter Yates
- Le Boucher (1971 Film) by Claude Chabrol

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The Messiness of Love
- X, Y, and Zee (1972 Film) by Brian G. Hutton

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Grinning
- Cabaret (1972 Film) by Bob Fosse

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Stanley Strangelove
- A Clockwork Orange (1971 Film) by Stanley Kubrick

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Pleasing and Punishing
- The Hospital (1971 Film) by Arthur Hiller
- The Boy Friend (1967 Film) by Ken Russell


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Baby Machos
- The Cowboys (1972 Film) by Mark Rydell

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Peckinpah's Obsession
- Straw Dogs (1971 Film) by Sam Peckinpah

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Collaboration and Resistance
- The Sorrow and the Pity (1972 Film) by Marcel Ophuls
- What's Up, Doc? (1972 Film) by Peter Bogdanovich

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Pop Versus Jazz
- Lady Sings the Blues (1972 Film) by Sidney J. Furie


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Hyperbole and Narcissus
- Savage Messiah (1972 Film) by Ken Russell


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Soul Food
- Sounder (1972 Film) by Martin Ritt
- The Emigrants (1971 Film) by Jan Troell


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The Hero as Freak
- Serpico (1973 Film) by Sidney Lumet

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Labyrinths
- Don't Look Now (1973 Film) by Nicolas Roeg
- Papillon (1973 Film) by Franklin J. Schaffner


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Out of Tragedy, Suds
- Limbo (1972 Film) by Mark Robson


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The Businessman-Pimp as Hero
- Save the Tiger (1973 Film) by John G. Avildsen
- Steelyard Blues (1973 Film) by Alan Myerson
- If I Had a Gun (1971 Film) by Stefan Uher

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The Riddles of Pop
- Payday (1972 Film) by Daryl Duke
- The Harder They Come (1972 Film) by Perry Henzell

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Flesh
- Cries and Whispers (1972 Film) by Ingmar Bergman


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Poetry and Politics
- The First Circle (1973 Film) by Aleksander Ford

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A Generation's Clown
- Ten From Your Show of Shows (1973 Film) by Max Liebman



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Kings
- Ludwig (1972 Film) by Luchino Visconti
- Two People (1973 Film) by Robert Wise

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Moments of Truth
- The Iceman Cometh (1973 Film) by John Frankenheimer
- The Inheritor (1973 Film) by Philippe Labro

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Bloodless and Bloody
- England Made Me (1973 Film) by Peter Duffell
- Charley Varrick (1973 Film) by Don Siegel



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After Innocence
- The Last American Hero (1973 Film) by Lamont Johnson

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Everyday Inferno
- Mean Streets (1973 Film) by Martin Scorsese


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Movieland---The Bums' Paradise
- The Long Goodbye (1973 Film) by Robert Altman


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Decadence
- Earthquake (1974 Film) by Mark Robson
- The Little Prince (1974 Film) by Stanley Donen


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Fathers and Sons
- The Godfather, Part II (1974 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola

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A Magnetic Blur
- Young Frankenstein (1974 Film) by Mel Brooks
- The Towering Inferno (1974 Film) by John Guillermin and Irwin Allen

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Love and Coca-Cola
- Thieves Like Us (1974 Film) by Robert Altman

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Nicholson's High
- The Last Detail (1973 Film) by Hal Ashby
- McQ (1974 Film) by John Sturges

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O Consuella!
- Zardoz (1974 Film) by John Boorman
- Blazing Saddles (1974 Film) by Mel Brooks

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The Street Western
- Walking Tall (1973 Film) by Phil Karlson

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Back to the Ouija Board
- The Exorcist (1973 Film) by William Friedkin

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Killing Time
- Dirty Harry (1971 Film) by Don Siegel
- Magnum Force (1973 Film) by Ted Post



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The Used Madonna
- The Mother and the Whore (1973 Film) by Jean Eustache

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A Brash Young Man
- Conrack (1974 Film) by Martin Ritt
- Mame (1974 Film) by Gene Saks

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Sugarland and Badlands
- The Sugarland Express (1974 Film) by Steven Spielberg
- Badlands (1973 Film) by Terrence Malick


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When the Saints Come Marching In
- Lenny (1974 Film) by Bob Fosse
- Ladies and Gentlemen---Lenny Bruce!! by Albert H. Goldman


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Stuck in the Fun
- The Night Porter (1974 Film) by Liliana Cavani
- The Abdication (1974 Film) by Anthony Harvey
- Juggernaut (1974 Film) by Richard Lester

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The Actor and the Star
- The Gambler (1974 Film) by Karel Reisz
- The Longest Yard (1974 Film) by Robert Aldrich



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Lacombe, Lucien
- Lacombe, Lucien (1974 Film) by Louis Malle
- Phantom India (1972 Film) by Louis Malle

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The Bull Goose Loony
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 Film) by Milos Forman


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Political Acts
- Special Section (1975 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras


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Kubrick's Gilded Age
- Barry Lyndon (1975 Film) by Stanley Kubrick
- Lucky Lady (1975 Film) by Stanley Donen


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For Oscar's Sake
- Report to the Commissioner (1974 Film) by Milton Katselas

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Beverly Hills as a Big Bed
- Shampoo (1975 Film) by Hal Ashby

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Male Revenge
- The Stepford Wives (1975 Film) by Bryan Forbes

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Woman on the Road
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974 Film) by Martin Scorsese

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Pure Chrome
- Stavisky (1974 Film) by Alain Resnais
- Les Violons du Bal (1974 Film) by Michel Drach

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Hardboiled Valentine
- The Front Page (1974 Film) by Billy Wilder

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Coming: "Nashville"
- Nashville (1975 Film) by Robert Altman
- A Brief Vacation (1973 Film) by Vittorio De Sica

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New York Self-Hatred for Fun and Profit
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975 Film) by Melvin Frank

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Talent Isn't Enough
- Funny Lady (1975 Film) by Herbert Ross


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The Darned
- The Day of the Locust (1975 Film) by John Schlesinger


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A Dream of Women
- Distant Thunder (1973 Film) by Satyajit Ray

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Walking Into Your Childhood
- The Magic Flute (1975 Film) by Ingmar Bergman
- The Sunshine Boys (1975 Film) by Herbert Ross

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Becoming an American
- Hester Street (1975 Film) by Joan Micklin Silver
- Black Moon (1975 Film) by Louis Malle
- Lisztomania (1975 Film) by Ken Russell

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The Visceral Poetry of Pulp
- Hard Times (1975 Film) by Walter Hill
- The Three Days of the Condor (1974 Film) by Sydney Pollack
- Smile (1975 Film) by Michael Ritchie

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Living Inside a Movie
- Hearts of the West (1975 Film) by Howard Zieff
- Royal Flash (1975 Film) by Richard Lester

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Metaphysical Tarzan
- The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1975 Film) by Werner Herzog

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All for Love
- The Story of Adele H. (1975 Film) by Francois Truffaut
- Mahogany (1975 Film) by Berry Gordy and Tony Richardson

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Lazarus Laughs
- Conversation Piece (1975 Film) by Luchino Visconti

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Hot Air
- Network (1976 Film) by Sidney Lumet

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Affirmation
- Bound for Glory (1976 Film) by Hal Ashby

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This Is My Beloved
- Lumiere (1976 Film) by Jeanne Moreau

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The Artist as a Young Comedian
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976 Film) by Paul Mazursky

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Underground Man
- Taxi Driver (1976 Film) by Martin Scorsese

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Seven Fatties
- Seven Beauties (1975 Film) by Lina Wertmuller

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Libel
- Gable and Lombard (1976 Film) by Sidney J. Furie

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Brotherhood Is Powerful
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975 Film) by John Huston

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Notes on the Nihilist Poetry of Sam Peckinpah
- The Killer Elite (1975 Film) by Sam Peckinpah


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Dirty Harry with Weltschmerz
- Hustle (1975 Film) by Robert Aldrich


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A Bit of Archie Rice


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Suicide Is Painless
- Robin and Marian (1976 Film) by Richard Lester

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The Hundred-Per-Cent Solution
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976 Film) by Herbert Ross
- A Matter of Time (1976 Film) by Vincente Minnelli

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Notes on Evolving Heroes, Morals, Audiences
- Jaws (1975 Film) by Steven Spielberg
- The Shootist (1976 Film) by Don Siegel
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975 Film) by Sidney Lumet
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976 Film) by Nicolas Roeg

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Travesties
- The Incredible Sarah (1976 Film) by Richard Fleischer
- The Next Man (1976 Film) by Richard C. Sarafian

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The Curse
- Carrie (1976 Film) by Brian De Palma

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Stallone and Stahr
- Rocky (1976 Film) by John G. Avildsen
- The Last Tycoon (1976 Film) by Elia Kazan

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Charmed Lives
- Small Change (1976 Film) by Francois Truffaut
- The Front (1976 Film) by Martin Ritt

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Running Into Trouble
- Marathon Man (1976 Film) by John Schlesinger
- The Memory of Justice (1976 Film) by Marcel Ophuls
- America at the Movies (1976 Film) by George Stevens, Jr.



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Creamed
- Bugsy Malone (1976 Film) by Alan Parker
- Sparkle (1976 Film) by Sam O'Steen

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The Unjoy of Sex
- The Man Who Loved Women (1977 Film) by Francois Truffaut
- Roseland (1977 Film) by James Ivory

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Boss Ladies
- Nasty Habits (1977 Film) by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Where We Are Now
- Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 Film) by Ted Kotcheff
- Thieves (1977 Film) by John Berry and Alfred Viola
- Fellini's Casanova (1976 Film) by Federico Fellini

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Here's to the Big One
- King Kong (1976 Film) by John Guillermin

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Contempt for the Audience
- A Star Is Born (1976 Film) by Frank Pierson


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Harlan County
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976 Film) by Barbara Kopple
- The Enforcer (1976 Film) by James Fargo

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Werewolf, Mon Amour
- Providence (1977 Film) by Alain Resnais

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Hill's Pate
- Slap Shot (1977 Film) by George Roy Hill

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Stag Show
- Islands in the Stream (1977 Film) by Franklin J. Schaffner

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Oh, Anomie, I Love You
- Welcome to L.A. (1976 Film) by Alan Rudolph
- The Wonderful Crook (1974 Film) by Claude Goretta

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The Lower Trash/The Higher Trash
- Valentino (1977 Film) by Ken Russell
- Equus (1977 Film) by Sidney Lumet


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Shouldn't "Old Acquaintance" Be Forgot?
- The Turning Point (1977 Film) by Herbert Ross

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The Greening of the Solar System
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 Film) by Steven Spielberg

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The Sacred Oak
- Padre Padrone (1977 Film) by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
- Bobby Deerfield (1977 Film) by Sydney Pollack

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A Woman for All Seasons?
- Julia (1977 Film) by Fred Zinnemann


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Goodbar, or How Nice Girls Go Wrong
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977 Film) by Richard Brooks
- Handle with Care (1977 Film) by Jonathan Demme

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Hail, Folly!
- 1900~~Nineteen Hundred (1977 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci

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Contrasts
- Star Wars (1976 Film) by George Lucas
- The Truck (1977 Film) by Marguerite Duras
- Short Eyes (1977 Film) by Robert M. Young

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Taming the Movies
- Movie, Movie (1978 Film) by Stanley Donen
- Same Time, Next Year (1978 Film) by Robert Mulligan

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Manic/Depressive
- Goin' South (1978 Film) by Jack Nicholson
- Magic (1978 Film) by Richard Attenborough

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The God-Bless-America Symphony
- The Deer Hunter (1978 Film) by Michael Cimino



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The Calvary Gig
- Renaldo and Clara (1976 Film) by Bob Dylan

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Mythologizing the Sixties
- Coming Home (1978 Film) by Hal Ashby

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The Cotton Mather of the Movies
- Blue Collar (1978 Film) by Paul Schrader
- The Betsy (1978 Film) by Daniel Petrie

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Fear of Heights
- High Anxiety (1977 Film) by Mel Brooks

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Regressions
- The Goodbye Girl (1977 Film) by Herbert Ross
- Iphigenia (1977 Film) by Mihalis Kakogiannis
- The Gauntlet (1977 Film) by Clint Eastwood

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"The Duellists"/"The Battle of Chile"
- The Duellists (1977 Film) by Ridley Scott
- The Battle of Chile (1975 Film) by Patricio Guzman

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More Torment, or When They Broke the Silence
- The Serpent's Egg (1978 Film) by Ingmar Bergman

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Empathy, and Its Limits
- An Unmarried Woman (1978 Film) by Paul Mazursky

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"What symmetrical digits!"
- Fingers (1978 Film) by James Toback


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Tentacles
- Autumn Sonata (1978 Film) by Ingmar Bergman


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Rocky's Knucklehead Progeny
- Paradise Alley (1978 Film) by Sylvester Stallone
- Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978 Film) by John G. Avildsen

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Movie Yellow Journalism
- Midnight Express (1978 Film) by Alan Parker

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Forty-Eight Characters in Search of a Director
- A Wedding (1978 Film) by Robert Altman
- Bloodbrothers (1978 Film) by Robert Mulligan


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Detectives---The Capon and the Baby Bowwow
- Death on the Nile (1978 Film) by John Guillermin
- The Big Fix (1978 Film) by Jeremy Paul Kagan

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Saint Dorothy
- The Wiz (1978 Film) by Sidney Lumet


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Steam Engines
- The Great Train Robbery (1978 Film) by Michael Crichton
- The Innocent (1976 Film) by Luchino Visconti

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No Contest
- Hardcore (1979 Film) by Paul Schrader
- Once in Paris... (1978 Film) by Frank D. Gilroy
- Halloween (1978 Film) by John Carpenter

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The Altman Bunker
- Quintet (1979 Film) by Robert Altman
- Agatha (1979 Film) by Michael Apted

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The Package
- Superman - The Movie (1978 Film) by Richard Donner

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Simon & Ross---The Compassion Boys
- California Suite (1978 Film) by Herbert Ross


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Rumbling
- The Warriors (1979 Film) by Walter Hill

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Master Spy, Master Seducer
- Dressed to Kill (1980 Film) by Brian De Palma

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Craft
- Honeysuckle Rose (1980 Film) by Jerry Schatzberg

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Religious Pulp, or The Incredible Hulk
- Raging Bull (1980 Film) by Martin Scorsese


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Muckrakers and Saints
- Brubaker (1980 Film) by Bob Rafelson and Stuart Rosenberg
- The Blues Brothers (1980 Film) by John Landis

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Boys and Girls
- The Blue Lagoon (1980 Film) by Randal Kleiser
- Urban Cowboy (1980 Film) by James Bridges

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Devolution
- The Shining (1980 Film) by Stanley Kubrick

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Why Are Movies So Bad? or, The Numbers

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Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy
- Private Benjamin (1980 Film) by Howard Zieff
- Divine Madness (1980 Film) by Michael Ritchie
- Used Cars (1980 Film) by Robert Zemeckis

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The Civilization of the Rump
- Every Man for Himself (1980 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard

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The Man Who Made Howard Hughes Sing and The Iron-Butterfly Mom
- Melvin and Howard (1980 Film) by Jonathan Demme
- Ordinary People (1980 Film) by Robert Redford

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The Frog Who Turned Into a Prince, The Prince Who Turned Into a Frog
- The Elephant Man (1980 Film) by David Lynch
- Stardust Memories (1980 Film) by Woody Allen

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Who and Who
- Willie and Phil (1980 Film) by Paul Mazursky
- Airplane! (1980 Film) by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
- The Great Santini (1979 Film) by Lewis John Carlino
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 Film) by Steven Spielberg



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Boorman's Plunge
- Excalibur (1981 Film) by John Boorman

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The Devil in the Flesh
- The Devil's Playground (1976 Film) by Fred Schepisi
- On Golden Pond (1981 Film) by Mark Rydell

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Dreamers
- Pennies from Heaven (1981 Film) by Herbert Ross
- Reds (1981 Film) by Warren Beatty

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Victims
- Tess (1979 Film) by Roman Polanski
- Kagemusha (1980 Film) by Akira Kurosawa

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Abel Gance
- Napoleon (1927 Film) by Abel Gance

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The Itch to Act
- Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981 Film) by Daniel Petrie

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The Funnies
- Popeye (1980 Film) by Robert Altman
- Flash Gordon (1980 Film) by Mike Hodges

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Good News
- Dragonslayer (1981 Film) by Matthew Robbins
- Superman II (1980 Film) by Richard Lester and Richard Donner
- Stripes (1981 Film) by Ivan Reitman

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer
- Blow Out (1981 Film) by Brian De Palma
- Arthur (1981 Film) by Steve Gordon
- Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981 Film) by Peter Medak

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Sad Songs
- This Is Elvis (1981 Film) by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt
- Heartworn Highways (1975 Film) by James Szalapski



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Love, War, and Custodial Services
- La Cage Aux Folles II (1981 Film) by Edouard Molinaro
- The Dogs of War (1981 Film) by John Irvin
- Eyewitness (1981 Film) by Peter Yates

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Safes and Snouts
- Thief (1981 Film) by Michael Mann
- The Howling (1981 Film) by Joe Dante

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Waddlers and Bikers
- Caveman (1981 Film) by Carl Gottlieb
- Knightriders (1981 Film) by George A. Romero

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Childhood of the Dead
- Pixote (1981 Film) by Hector Babenco
- Looker (1981 Film) by Michael Crichton
- Continental Divide (1981 Film) by Michael Apted
- Body Heat (1981 Film) by Lawrence Kasdan






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Rhapsody in Blue
- Diva (1981 Film) by Jean-Jacques Beineix



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Tootsie, Gandhi, and Sophie
- Tootsie (1982 Film) by Sydney Pollack
- Gandhi (1982 Film) by Richard Attenborough
- Sophie's Choice (1982 Film) by Alan J. Pakula

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Melted Ice Cream
- One from the Heart (1982 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola
- The Border (1982 Film) by Tony Richardson

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The Man Who Understands Women
- Personal Best (1982 Film) by Robert Towne


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Shoot the Moon
- Shoot the Moon (1982 Film) by Alan Parker

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Baby, the Rain Must Fall
- Blade Runner (1982 Film) by Ridley Scott


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The Pure and the Impure
- E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982 Film) by Steven Spielberg
- Poltergeist (1982 Film) by Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg
- The Escape Artist (1982 Film) by Caleb Deschanel

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The Only Logical Thing to Doe
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982 Film) by Nicholas Meyer

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Carry Your Own Matches
- Quest for Fire (1982 Film) by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Missing (1982 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras
- Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci

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Francesco Rosi
- Three Brothers (1980 Film) by Francesco Rosi

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Audience Pleaser
- Victor/Victoria (1982 Film) by Blake Edwards
- Cat People (1982 Film) by Paul Schrader

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A Devil Without Fire
- Mephisto (1981 Film) by Istvan Szabo

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Fighters
- Smash Palace (1982 Film) by Roger Donaldson
- Annie (1982 Film) by John Huston
- Rocky III (1982 Film) by Sylvester Stallone

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Actors as Heroes
- My Favorite Year (1982 Film) by Richard Benjamin
- Tex (1982 Film) by Tim Hunter
- Le Beau Mariage (1982 Film) by Eric Rohmer

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Up the River
- Fitzcarraldo (1982 Film) by Werner Herzog

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Action
- The Road Warrior (1981 Film) by George Miller

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Buzzers
- Tempest (1982 Film) by Paul Mazursky
- Night Shift (1982 Film) by Ron Howard

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Saved!
- Say Amen, Somebody (1982 Film) by George T. Nierenberg
- Bad Boys (1983 Film) by Rick Rosenthal

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Anybody Home?
- Zelig (1983 Film) by Woody Allen
- The Grey Fox (1983 Film) by Phillip Borsos


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Retro Retro
- Terms of Endearment (1983 Film) by James L. Brooks
- Never Cry Wolf (1983 Film) by Carroll Ballard

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A De Palma Movie for People Who Don't Like De Palma Movies
- Scarface (1983 Film) by Brian De Palma


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The Cool and the Dead
- 48 Hrs~~Forty-Eight Hours (1982 Film) by Walter Hill
- The Verdict (1982 Film) by Sidney Lumet

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Hopeless
- Coup de Torchon (1981 Film) by Bertrand Tavernier
- Best Friends (1982 Film) by Norman Jewison

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Time-Warp Movies
- Superman III (1983 Film) by Richard Lester
- Trading Places (1983 Film) by John Landis
- Betrayal (1983 Film) by David Hugh Jones

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Hysterics
- The Survivors (1983 Film) by Michael Ritchie
- Twilight Zone - The Movie (1983 Film) by Joe Dante, George Miller, John Landis, and Steven Spielberg, ...

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Wrapping It Up
- Fanny and Alexander (1982 Film) by Ingmar Bergman
- WarGames (1983 Film) by John Badham


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Jokes
- The King of Comedy (1983 Film) by Martin Scorsese
- Lovesick (1983 Film) by Marshall Brickman



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Fun Machines
- Return of the Jedi (1983 Film) by Richard Marquand
- Blue Thunder (1983 Film) by John Badham


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The Perfectionist
- Yentl (1983 Film) by Barbra Streisand
- Star 80 (1983 Film) by Bob Fosse

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On Golden Swamp
- Cross Creek (1983 Film) by Martin Ritt
- Lonely Hearts (1982 Film) by Paul Cox

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The Sevens
- The Right Stuff (1983 Film) by Philip Kaufman
- The Big Chill (1983 Film) by Lawrence Kasdan

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Image Makers
- Under Fire (1983 Film) by Roger Spottiswoode


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A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece
- The Moon in the Gutter (1983 Film) by Jean-Jacques Beineix
- The Leopard (1963 Film) by Luchino Visconti



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Exaltation/Escapism
- Iceman (1984 Film) by Fred Schepisi
- Romancing the Stone (1984 Film) by Robert Zemeckis

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The Woman Question
- The Bostonians (1984 Film) by James Ivory
- Repo Man (1984 Film) by Alex Cox

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The Charismatic Half-and-Halfs
- Purple Rain (1984 Film) by Albert Magnoli
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984 Film) by W.D. Richter


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David and Golieth
- Dune (1984 Film) by David Lynch
- 48 Hrs~~Forty-Eight Hours (1982 Film) by Walter Hill
- Choose Me (1984 Film) by Alan Rudolph

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Vulgarians and Ascetics
- Broadway Danny Rose (1984 Film) by Woody Allen
- Basileus Quartet (1984 Film) by Fabio Carpi

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Comedy, Epic, Sitcom
- The Lonely Guy (1984 Film) by Arthur Hiller
- El Norte (1983 Film) by Gregory Nava
- Blame It on Rio (1984 Film) by Stanley Donen

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Busybody
- Silkwood (1983 Film) by Mike Nichols
- To Be or Not to Be (1983 Film) by Alan Johnson



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A Breeze, a Bawd, a Bounty
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984 Film) by Steven Spielberg
- Erendira (1983 Film) by Ruy Guerra
- The Bounty (1984 Film) by Roger Donaldson

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The Pop Junkpile
- Gremlins (1984 Film) by Joe Dante
- Trading Places (1983 Film) by John Landis

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The Women
- Entre Nous (1983 Film) by Diane Kurys
- Footloose (1984 Film) by Herbert Ross

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King Comedy
- Splash (1984 Film) by Ron Howard
- Against All Odds (1984 Film) by Taylor Hackford

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Smaller Than Life
- Swing Shift (1984 Film) by Jonathan Demme

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The Candidate
- The Natural (1984 Film) by Barry Levinson
- Sixteen Candles (1984 Film) by John Hughes

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Faked Out, Cooled Out, Bummed Out
- The Little Drummer Girl (1984 Film) by George Roy Hill
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984 Film) by Jim Jarmusch
- Body Double (1984 Film) by Brian De Palma


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Tight Little Thriller
- Dreamscape (1984 Film) by Joseph Ruben
- Country (1984 Film) by Richard Pearce
- Swann in Love (1984 Film) by Volker Schlondorff
- Tightrope (1984 Film) by Richard Tuggle

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Mirrors
- Utu (1984 Film) by Geoff Murphy
- Places in the Heart (1984 Film) by Robert Benton

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Mozart and Bizet
- Amadeus (1984 Film) by Milos Forman
- Bizet's Carmen (1984 Film) by Francesco Rosi

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Roger & Edwina, Sheena, and Uncle Jean
- All of Me (1984 Film) by Carl Reiner
- Sheena (1984 Film) by John Guillermin
- First Name: Carmen (1983 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard



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Pop Mystics
- Pale Rider (1985 Film) by Clint Eastwood
- The Emerald Forest (1985 Film) by John Boorman
- Final Cut by Steven Bach



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Sacred Monsters
- Out of Africa (1985 Film) by Sydney Pollack
- The Color Purple (1985 Film) by Steven Spielberg
- Shoah (1985 Film) by Claude Lanzmann

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Schoolboys
- The Falcon and the Snowman (1985 Film) by John Schlesinger
- Birdy (1984 Film) by Alan Parker

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Plain and Simple
- Witness (1985 Film) by Peter Weir
- Blood Simple (1984 Film) by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

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Fever Dream/Echo Chamber
- Mrs. Soffel (1984 Film) by Gillian Armstrong
- The Cotton Club (1984 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola

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Unloos'd Dreams
- A Passage to India (1984 Film) by David Lean

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Lovers and Fools
- Micki and Maude (1984 Film) by Blake Edwards
- Starman (1984 Film) by John Carpenter
- The Flamingo Kid (1984 Film) by Garry Marshall


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Arf
- Secret Honor (1984 Film) by Robert Altman
- Cocoon (1985 Film) by Ron Howard

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Living Out a Song
- Songwriter (1984 Film) by Alan Rudolph
- Back to the Future (1985 Film) by Robert Zemeckis
- Silverado (1985 Film) by Lawrence Kasdan





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The Muddle Ages
- Ladyhawke (1985 Film) by Richard Donner



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Straitjackets
- White Nights (1985 Film) by Taylor Hackford
- Re-Animator (1985 Film) by Stuart Gordon

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Dead on Arrival
- Plenty (1985 Film) by Fred Schepisi
- Wetherby (1985 Film) by David Hare

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Heroines
- Sweet Dreams (1985 Film) by Karel Reisz
- Dreamchild (1985 Film) by Gavin Millar
- Marie (1985 Film) by Roger Donaldson

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The Great White Hope
- Year of the Dragon (1985 Film) by Michael Cimino
- Compromising Positions (1985 Film) by Frank Perry

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Airhead's Delight
- After Hours (1985 Film) by Martin Scorsese


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Lost Souls
- Ginger and Fred (1986 Film) by Federico Fellini
- Crossroads (1986 Film) by Walter Hill

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Pairs
- Club Paradise (1986 Film) by Harold Ramis
- Heartburn (1986 Film) by Mike Nichols
- Aliens (1986 Film) by James Cameron



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White and Gray
- Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986 Film) by Paul Mazursky
- Brazil (1985 Film) by Terry Gilliam


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Macro, Micro, Stinko
- Ran (1985 Film) by Akira Kurosawa
- The Trip to Bountiful (1985 Film) by Peter Masterson
- Revolution (1985 Film) by Hugh Hudson

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Lasso and Peashooter
- Fool for Love (1985 Film) by Robert Altman
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985 Film) by Barry Levinson

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Toads
- About Last Night... (1986 Film) by Edward Zwick
- Ruthless People (1986 Film) by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams

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Pig Heaven
- Salvador (1986 Film) by Oliver Stone
- Back to School (1986 Film) by Alan Metter

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Fizzle/A*L*D*A
- Absolute Beginners (1986 Film) by Julien Temple
- Sweet Liberty (1986 Film) by Alan Alda

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Brutes
- Mona Lisa (1986 Film) by Neil Jordan
- Top Gun (1986 Film) by Tony Scott


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Yes, Yes
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1986 Film) by Stephen Frears
- Chaos (1985 Film) by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani

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Twits, Turtles, Creeps
- A Room With a View (1986 Film) by James Ivory
- Turtle Diary (1985 Film) by John Irvin
- Smooth Talk (1985 Film) by Joyce Chopra



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Scorsese's Showmanship
- The Color of Money (1986 Film) by Martin Scorsese

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Doubling Up
- Something Wild (1986 Film) by Jonathan Demme

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Quests for America
- True Stories (1986 Film) by David Byrne
- Peggy Sue Got Married (1986 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola
- Down by Law (1986 Film) by Jim Jarmusch


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Out There and In Here
- Blue Velvet (1986 Film) by David Lynch


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Manypeeplia Upsidownia
- Law of Desire (1987 Film) by Pedro Almodovar
- Raising Arizona (1987 Film) by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Street Smart (1987 Film) by Jerry Schatzberg

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Siblings and Cyborgs
- Good Morning, Babylon (1987 Film) by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
- La Bamba (1987 Film) by Luis Valdez
- RoboCop (1987 Film) by Paul Verhoeven

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Tender Hooey
- Dirty Dancing (1987 Film) by Emile Ardolino
- Stakeout (1987 Film) by John Badham
- Nadine (1987 Film) by Robert Benton

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Irish Voices
- The Dead (1987 Film) by John Huston
- Housekeeping (1987 Film) by Bill Forsyth



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Virgins, Vamps, and Floozies
- Hour of the Star (1985 Film) by Suzana Amaral
- Black Widow (1987 Film) by Bob Rafelson
- Outrageous Fortune (1987 Film) by Arthur Hiller

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Little Shocks, Big Shocks
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986 Film) by Frank Oz
- Platoon (1986 Film) by Oliver Stone




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Noodles
- Tampopo (1986 Film) by Juzo Itami
- Ishtar (1987 Film) by Elaine May

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Happy Feet, Dead Heads
- Roxanne (1987 Film) by Fred Schepisi
- River's Edge (1986 Film) by Tim Hunter




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Nannies and Noncoms
- Personal Services (1987 Film) by Terry Jones
- Gardens of Stone (1987 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola


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The Manchurian Conformist
- The Last Emperor (1987 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci
- Cry Freedom (1987 Film) by Richard Attenborough




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Temporary Madnesses: Forster, Mailer, Hepburn
- Maurice (1987 Film) by James Ivory
- Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987 Film) by Norman Mailer
- White Hunter, Black Heart by Peter Viertel
- The Making of 'The African Queen' by Katharine Hepburn

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Soft Light and Hellfire
- High Season (1987 Film) by Clare Peploe
- Pass the Ammo (1988 Film) by David Beaird




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Take Off Your Clothes
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988 Film) by Philip Kaufman

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The Lady from the Sea
- High Tide (1988 Film) by Gillian Armstrong
- Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987 Film) by Louis Malle


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Loony Fugue
- Moonstruck (1987 Film) by Norman Jewison
- September (1987 Film) by Woody Allen


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Sunshine
- Bull Durham (1988 Film) by Ron Shelton
- Big (1988 Film) by Penny Marshall
- Big Business (1988 Film) by Jim Abrahams


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A Smooth Sail
- Masquerade (1988 Film) by Bob Swaim
- Frantic (1988 Film) by Roman Polanski
- Switching Channels (1988 Film) by Ted Kotcheff

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Art Tour
- Colors (1988 Film) by Dennis Hopper
- Crazy Love (1987 Film) by Dominique Deruddere

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Red on Red
- Matador (1986 Film) by Pedro Almodovar

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Zone Poem
- Wings of Desire (1987 Film) by Wim Wenders
- Willow (1988 Film) by Ron Howard



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Bird Thou Never Wert
- Bird (1988 Film) by Clint Eastwood
- Gorillas in the Mist (1988 Film) by Michael Apted
- Patty Hearst (1988 Film) by Paul Schrader

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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
What's Wrong with This Picture?
- Another Woman (1988 Film) by Woody Allen
- Punchline (1988 Film) by David Seltzer
- Madame Sousatzka (1988 Film) by John Schlesinger


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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Like Mad
- The Dream Team (1989 Film) by Howard Zieff
- Crusoe (1989 Film) by Caleb Deschanel
- Heathers (1989 Film) by Michael Lehmann

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The Current Cinema (Review) Pauline Kael
A Wounded Apparition
- Casualties of War (1989 Film) by Brian De Palma

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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Busty, Twisty, Fishy
- Blaze (1989 Film) by Ron Shelton
- Back to Future, Part II (1989 Film) by Robert Zemeckis
- The Little Mermaid (1989 Film) by John Musker and Ron Clements

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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Pulling the Rug Out
- Enemies, A Love Story (1989 Film) by Paul Mazursky
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989 Film) by Bruce Beresford

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The Current Cinema (Review) Pauline Kael
Stunt
- Rain Man (1988 Film) by Barry Levinson


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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The Comedy of Evil
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988 Film) by Stephen Frears
- Working Girl (1988 Film) by Mike Nichols


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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The City Gone Psycho
- Batman (1989 Film) by Tim Burton
- Ghostbusters II (1989 Film) by Ivan Reitman


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The Current Cinema (Review) Pauline Kael
Stonework
- Dead Poets Society (1989 Film) by Peter Weir

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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Killers and Cousins
- Out Cold (1989 Film) by Malcolm Mowbray
- Parents (1989 Film) by Bob Balaban
- Cousins (1989 Film) by Joel Schumacher

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The Current Cinema (Review) Pauline Kael
Two-Base Hit
- New York Stories (1989 Film) by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen, ...

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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Fascination
- Let's Get Lost (1988 Film) by Bruce Weber
- Field of Dreams (1989 Film) by Phil Alden Robinson

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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Young Stuff
- Scandal (1989 Film) by Michael Caton-Jones
- Say Anything (1989 Film) by Cameron Crowe

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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Trampled
- The Rainbow (1989 Film) by Ken Russell
- Miss Firecracker (1989 Film) by Thomas Schlamme

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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Bombs
- Dad (1989 Film) by Gary David Goldberg
- Fat Man and Little Boy (1989 Film) by Roland Joffe
- The Bear (1988 Film) by Jean-Jacques Annaud

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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Second Takes
- Henry V (1989 Film) by Kenneth Branagh
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988 Film) by Stephen Frears





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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The 54th
- Glory (1989 Film) by Edward Zwick
- Internal Affairs (1990 Film) by Mike Figgis

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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Melodrama/Cartoon/Mess
- Music Box (1989 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras
- Roger and Me (1989 Film) by Michael Moore
- Always (1989 Film) by Steven Spielberg




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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Tumescence as Style
- GoodFellas (1990 Film) by Martin Scorsese
- The Tall Guy (1989 Film) by Mel Smith

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The Current Cinema (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The Doctor and the Director
- Awakenings (1990 Film) by Penny Marshall
- Sleeping with the Enemy (1991 Film) by Joseph Ruben
- L.A. Story (1991 Film) by Mick Jackson


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The Current Cinema: As Swift as Buzzard Flies (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The Stunt Man (1980 Film), by Richard Rush
- The Stunt Man (1980 Film) by Richard Rush
- Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980 Film) by Michael Pressman

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The Current Cinema: Beyond Pirandello (Review) Pauline Kael
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (1970 Film), by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and C...
- The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (1970 Film) by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, ...

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The Current Cinema: Bolt & Lean (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Ryan's Daughter (1970 Film), by David Lean
- Ryan's Daughter (1970 Film) by David Lean
- Perfect Friday (1970 Film) by Peter Hall

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The Current Cinema: Clobber-Movie (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The Great White Hope (1970 Film), by Martin Ritt
- The Great White Hope (1970 Film) by Martin Ritt
- Monte Walsh (1970 Film) by William A. Fraker
- First Love (1970 Film) by Maximilian Schell

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The Current Cinema: Epic and Crumbcrusher (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Little Big Man (1970 Film), by Arthur Penn
- Little Big Man (1970 Film) by Arthur Penn
- Love Story (1970 Film) by Arthur Hiller

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The Current Cinema: Furry Freaks (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Up in Smoke (1978 Film), by Lou Adler and Tommy Chong
- Up in Smoke (1978 Film) by Lou Adler and Tommy Chong
- Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978 Film) by Lamont Johnson
- The Boys from Brazil (1978 Film) by Franklin J. Schaffner

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The Current Cinema: Kamikazes (Review) Pauline Kael
Ice (1970 Film), by Robert Kramer
- Ice (1970 Film) by Robert Kramer


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The Current Cinema: Mindspeak (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987 Film), by Stephen Frears
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987 Film) by Stephen Frears
- Made in Heaven (1987 Film) by Alan Rudolph
- Suspect (1987 Film) by Peter Yates

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The Current Cinema: Mythmaking (4 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Burn! (1970 Film), by Gillo Pontecorvo
- Burn! (1970 Film) by Gillo Pontecorvo
- The Twelve Chairs (1970 Film) by Mel Brooks
- Cromwell (1970 Film) by Ken Hughes
- WUSA (1970 Film) by Stuart Rosenberg


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The Current Cinema: Raunch and Retience (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Sisters (1973 Film), by Brian De Palma
- Sisters (1973 Film) by Brian De Palma
- Still of the Night (1982 Film) by Robert Benton

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The Current Cinema: Slapstick Tragedy (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The Pizza Triangle (1970 Film), by Ettore Scola
- The Pizza Triangle (1970 Film) by Ettore Scola
- Bombay Talkie (1970 Film) by James Ivory
- Scrooge (1970 Film) by Ronald Neame

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The Current Cinema: Stalinism (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
The Confession (1970 Film), by Constantin Costa-Gavras
- The Confession (1970 Film) by Constantin Costa-Gavras
- Act of the Heart (1970 Film) by Paul Almond


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The Current Cinema: Worlds Apart (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Alice's Restaurant (1969 Film), by Arthur Penn
- Alice's Restaurant (1969 Film) by Arthur Penn
- I Walk the Line (1970 Film) by John Frankenheimer

Deeper Into Movies (1973)Pauline Kael
6 Reviews, 2 Readable

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Film Chronicle (Review) Pauline Kael
Night People (1954 Film), by Nunnally Johnson
- Night People (1954 Film) by Nunnally Johnson


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Films: Godard among the Gangsters (Review) Pauline Kael
Band of Outsiders (1964 Film), by Jean-Luc Godard
- Band of Outsiders (1964 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard




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Films: Youth is Beauty (Review) Pauline Kael
Masculine-Feminine (1966 Film), by Jean-Luc Godard
- Masculine-Feminine (1966 Film) by Jean-Luc Godard



Going Steady (1970)Pauline Kael
Film Writings, 1968-1969
4 Reviews, 2 Readable

I Lost It at the Movies (1965)Pauline Kael
Film Writings, 1954-1965
6 Reviews, 1 Readable

Interview: Kael TalksHal Espen and Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael weighs in on the state of the current cinema


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968)Pauline Kael
5 Reviews


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Movie Chronicle (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Yojimbo (1961 Film), by Akira Kurosawa
- Yojimbo (1961 Film) by Akira Kurosawa
- The Apu Trilogy (1963 Film) by Satyajit Ray

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Movie Chronicle: Little Men (4 Reviews) Pauline Kael
A Taste of Honey (1961 Film), by Tony Richardson
- A Taste of Honey (1961 Film) by Tony Richardson
- Victim (1961 Film) by Basil Dearden
- Lolita (1962 Film) by Stanley Kubrick
- Jules and Jim (1962 Film) by Francois Truffaut

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Movie: A Sense of Disproporation (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Grand Prix (1966 Film), by John Frankenheimer
- Grand Prix (1966 Film) by John Frankenheimer
- Funeral in Berlin (1966 Film) by Guy Hamilton

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Movies: A Shaggy Man Story (Review) Pauline Kael
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1967 Film), by Jean Renoir
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1967 Film) by Jean Renoir

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Movies: Celtic Spring, Swedish Summer (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Ulysses (1967 Film), by Joseph Strick
- Ulysses (1967 Film) by Joseph Strick
- Persona (1967 Film) by Ingmar Bergman


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Movies: Freeway Love (Review) Pauline Kael
Two for the Road (1967 Film), by Stanley Donen
- Two for the Road (1967 Film) by Stanley Donen

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Movies: Heads That Rolls (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
A Man for All Seasons (1966 Film), by Fred Zinnemann
- A Man for All Seasons (1966 Film) by Fred Zinnemann
- Night Games (1966 Film) by Mai Zetterling

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Movies: Orson Welles - There Ain't No Way (Review) Pauline Kael
Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (1967 Film), by Orson Welles
- Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (1967 Film) by Orson Welles

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Movies: Saddle Sore (4 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Stagecoach (1966 Film), by Gordon Douglas
- Stagecoach (1966 Film) by Gordon Douglas
- The Way West (1967 Film) by Andrew V. McLaglen
- The War Wagon (1967 Film) by Burt Kennedy
- El Dorado (1966 Film) by Howard Hawks

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Movies: So Off-Beat We Lose the Beat (3 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Georgy Girl (1966 Film), by Silvio Narizzano
- Georgy Girl (1966 Film) by Silvio Narizzano
- Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966 Film) by Karel Reisz
- The Red Desert (1965 Film) by Michelangelo Antonioni

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Movies: The Comedy of Depravity (Review) Pauline Kael
The Accident (1967 Film), by Joseph Losey
- The Accident (1967 Film) by Joseph Losey

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Movies: The Living Library (2 Reviews) Pauline Kael
Fahrenheit 451 (1966 Film), by Francois Truffaut
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966 Film) by Francois Truffaut
- A Man and a Woman (1966 Film) by Claude Lelouch

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Movies: Tourist in the City of Youth (Review) Pauline Kael
Blow-Up (1966 Film), by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Blow-Up (1966 Film) by Michelangelo Antonioni

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Onward and Upward With the Arts (Review) Pauline Kael
("Citizen Kane"---II)
- Citizen Kane (1941 Film) by Orson Welles

Onward and Upward with the ArtsPauline Kael
On the Future of Movies

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Onward and Upward With the Arts I (Review) Pauline Kael
Citizen Kane (1941 Film), by Orson Welles
- Citizen Kane (1941 Film) by Orson Welles



Reflections: The Movie LoverPauline Kael
As a film critic writing for The New Yorker from 1967 to 1991, Pauline Kael changed the...


State of the Art (1986)Pauline Kael
Film Writings, 1983-1985
1 Review, 1 Readable

Taking It All In (1984)Pauline Kael
1 Review, 1 Readable


When the Lights Go Down (1980)Pauline Kael
2 Reviews
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