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Altered States (1980)
A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.
Filmmaker(s): Ken Russell
Horror
Science Fiction
Thriller

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

12 Mar

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A Beautiful Mind director would have been better for this material in my mind. The production is off: the effects, the drama and the love story all fail. But the idea behind the story… the idea, that has power and is enough to keep you...


Published March 12, 2023
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Jane Austin in Manhattan (1980)
Filmmaker(s): James Ivory
Drama
Romance

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

07 Mar

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The Chosen am usually offended, retroactively offended by Ivory - Jhabvala films. They have a quiet, deep consistency that draws respect the same way a cathedral does. But the uncomplicated emotional links and the sentimental world in which they exist gets to me, and taints...


Published March 7, 2023
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Ishtar (1987)
Telling the truth can be dangerous business.
Filmmaker(s): Elaine May
Comedy
Adventure

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

05 Mar

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Farentheit am writing this at a time when George Bush is still president, Michael Moore’s film has just appeared and the American people are beginning to understand what has happened. We all grasp at the movie we live in. At the moment, the “Republican” movie is...


Published March 5, 2023
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Krull (1983)
A world light-years beyond your imagination.
Filmmaker(s): Peter Yates
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Science Fiction

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

26 Feb

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Organic may still be people who watch projects like this for adventure. Heck, there are even people who get their theology from such stuff, currently “Rings” and “Matrix.” But for me, the allure is a matter of style. This film was conceived in the shadow of 1979s...


Published February 26, 2023
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The Beast of War (1988)
War brings out the beast in every man.
Filmmaker(s): Kevin Reynolds
War
Drama

During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.

24 Feb

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Mechanised Urges is fine with me for a film to be just an anti war film, without all the embellishments of the more famous ones. Because of that I will advise you to find this and let it soak in. I write this at the...


Published February 24, 2023
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Poirot: The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1989)

24 Dec

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Fully Realized the years, I have written one tirade after another about Clive Exton, the adapter of Christie for many of these Poirot mysteries. He just doesn’t get the form, what makes the form of the detective story so captivating. What he does is substitute...


Published December 24, 2022
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A Girl’s Own Story (1984)
Filmmaker(s): Jane Campion
Drama

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.

24 Dec

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Her Very Own recently watched “In the Cut,” and found its connectives strange and exciting. So I went to this to see them when young and raw. Supposedly, this is Campion’s first long form film. It didn’t quite work as a film the first time because...


Published December 24, 2022
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood.
Filmmaker(s): Charles Crichton
Comedy
Crime

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

24 Dec

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Remote Brits watched this recently, and also saw it when it was new. At the time, I suppose it was funny. Now I do not, and I think perhaps it is because the center of gravity for humour has changed. Each of the Pythonista’s had a...


Published December 24, 2022
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Aunt Peg’s Fulfillment (1981)
Shocking...Daring...Erotic
Filmmaker(s): Anthony Spinelli

The continuing lustful sexual adventures of Hollywood producer Aunt Peg as she tries to continue with financing her latest movie project.

24 Dec

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Unfulfilling porn, the kind celebrated in “Boogie Nights,” cannot be avoided if you are serious about studying film. An amazing number of these, mostly from the 70s, have pretty cleverly engineered contexts. It is completely different than the porn of today, where there is no attempt...


Published December 24, 2022
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