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Wolfen (1981)
Ever since Michael Keaton referenced it as a joke in The Dream Team, I’ve been curious about Wolfen (1981). With Albert Finney’s passing, I tracked down a copy to finally watch. A busy year for movies about wolves (this is not strictly a werewolf movie) with The Howling and American Werewolf In London released in… Read.
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Girlfriends (1978)
Girlfriends (1978) is a buried treasure of independent cinema whose influence was touted awhile back by Lena Dunham (who held a revival screening and hired director Claudia Weill to helm an episode of Girls). It also feels like the inspiration to filmmakers like Nicole Holofcener, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, etc as it is about… Read.
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Performance (1970)
Continuing to backtrack through the work of director Nicolas Roeg, and I didn’t realise he co-directed Performance (1970) with its writer Donald Cammell. First, I was surprised to see the typically urbane and upper crust James Fox convincingly play a cockney gangster, a real sadistic rotter who gets into a bit of sticky bother with… Read.
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The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973)
I remember the first time I watched The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973), I taped it off TV after hearing it talked up in a few movie books my Mum owned. I think I was a bit young because I felt underwhelmed – it wasn’t as epic as The Godfather or had amazing stunt work… Read.
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Duck, You Sucker/A Fistful Of Dynamite (1971)
A long running gap in my Sergio Leone movie watching was the one with two titles – Duck, You Sucker (1971) aka A Fistful Of Dynamite has always been underrated or not as celebrated. Maybe because it doesn’t have Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson? Instead you have James Coburn with an Irish accent as an… Read.
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