They say that the 1979 The Omen knockoff The Visitor is wonderfully nutty. They are correct.
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In the latest round up of succinct selections from The Fractured Mirror, my upcoming book on American movies about the film industry I write about Goodbye, Norma Jean, Hollywood Man, I’ll Do Anything, Myra Breckinridge, Susan Slept Here and White Hunter, Black Heart
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My patron-funded exploration of Virginia Madsen hits another low-key charmer, the Danny Huston-directed 1988 comedy-drama Mr. North, starring Madsen, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, David Warner, Harry Dean Stanton and Anthony Edwards.
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In remembrance of the late Peter Bogdanovich, we are re-running this piece on The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles’ towering final masterpiece and a haunting meditation on the writer-director’s complicated relationship with his protege.
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Crank N’ Mank Month continues with a look at the masterful first and final films of John Huston, the star of Orson Welles’ brilliant and incendiary final film, The Other Side of the Wind.
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One of you kind folks paid me a cool hundred bucks to finally experience the notorious 1985 Disney fantasy flop, a movie that, to be honest, is pretty fucked up.
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