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8/29/17

11:25 AM

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The late Tobe Hooper blew the nuclear family to pieces in Spontaneous Combustion

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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8/1/17

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It takes a master to make a crime movie without guns

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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6/13/17

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The Last Year At Marienbad of Z-grade bad movies

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5/9/17

2:32 PM

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Almost 60 years ago, an unorthodox film tackled race and racism in the classroom

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4/25/17

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The director of Bad Lieutenant takes on the prescient cyberpunk of William Gibson

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4/11/17

11:45 AM

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From Fascist Italy came a violent medieval fantasy epic way ahead of its time

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3/21/17

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75 years later, Orson Welles’ troubled follow-up to Citizen Kane continues to enchant

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2/14/17

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Sax and violence: The intoxicating alternate reality of Trouble In Mind

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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1/17/17

11:35 AM

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Rapture with parrots: The delirious world of Finland’s king of melodrama

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11/1/16

1:38 PM

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Kenji Mizoguchi made masterpieces, but nothing as strange as Miyamoto Musashi

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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10/18/16

1:00 AM

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The fogbound mystery that predicted film noir, fascism, and the French New Wave

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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10/4/16

1:00 AM

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Anti-Christ in a custom van: The churchy cheap thrills of A Thief In The Night

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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9/27/16

1:00 AM

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The Eraserhead baby from space: David Lynch made a weird world in Dune

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8/23/16

1:00 AM

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There was more to Aussie comic Yahoo Serious than just his dumb hair

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8/9/16

1:18 PM

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Overlooked movies of 1996

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7/27/16

10:00 AM

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Oh, Brother: Russia’s beloved and troubling no-budget hit man movie

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6/28/16

1:00 AM

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A legendary Hollywood director scaled the Great Pyramid with a visionary flop

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6/14/16

1:00 AM

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Giving a forgotten Ashton Kutcher vanity project its due

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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5/17/16

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The bold, innovative Canon City deserves to be better known

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4/19/16

1:00 AM

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Iconic cinematographer Christopher Doyle cut loose with a little-seen film

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