Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, some extras, and various Feelies (visible: Dave Weckerman, Stanley Demeski, the top of Bill Million's hair) in Something Wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986. As much as I…
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José Mojica Marins and Rui Rezende in Encarnação do Demônio (Embodiment of Evil), directed by Marins, 2008 I've quoted this passage from Caetano Veloso's memoir, Tropical Truth, before: In 1967,…
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Over the weekend the missus and I had the occasion to check out Raising Arizona, a picture the missus had never seen in its entirety before, on DVD. And let…
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This post should be considered as a contribution to the above-depicted blogathon; please see here for further details. And please give! Is Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 The Sweet Smell of Success…
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The conventional wisdom in certain circles is that this quasi-sequel/companion piece to 1952's The Bad And The Beautiful is both a weak and weird sister to the prior film. I…
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As you might infer from the title of this post, spoilers will follow. So when better than now to entreat you, if you haven't yet seen The Prowler, a remarkable…
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