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The Unsung: Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941)
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Read more: The Unsung: Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941)Everett Sloane” hardly sends chills down anyone’s spine, but when the book on 20th century cinematic art is written, he’ll be there, somewhere around the second or third chapter,
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The ABC’s Of Prostitution
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Read more: The ABC’s Of ProstitutionAdult Services: Whether using a phone book or website, it’s a dead end to look for any other term. Some phone books have removed the section altogether, preferring “Adult Entertainment” to legally cover stripping, basement/garage modeling, jumping out of cakes, and the like. “Services,” on the other hand, ensures the exchange of sex for money,…
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The Unsung: Cookie, in Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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Read more: The Unsung: Cookie, in Deconstructing Harry (1997)If there is a misunderstood and despised figure in American cinema, it is the prostitute. If they aren’t being reduced to a crude stereotype, they are granted little agency at all, and even less dignity
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Assholes of the Cinema: Brian Glover, Kes (1969)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Brian Glover, Kes (1969)He is the British working class in a single, stout, has-been of a frame. Hell, he just might stand in for the entire United Kingdom, circa 1969. Past moments, few and fleeting, remembered instead as unparalleled triumphs
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The Unsung: Mr. Jackson, Double Indemnity (1944)
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Read more: The Unsung: Mr. Jackson, Double Indemnity (1944)In a world gone rotten – murder, honeysuckle, and anklets that lead to oblivion – there is Mr. Jackson. While everyone else is doing their level best to get out of this life a little more than they put in, Mr. Jackson, by all appearances, is the only one devoted to sheer pleasure.
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The Best Film Ever Made About…
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Read more: The Best Film Ever Made About…Everything a married couple experiences during the average evening: lies, recriminations, pettiness, alcohol abuse, adultery, and…
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Troll 2 (1990)
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Read more: Troll 2 (1990)A Sheriff named Freak, orchestrates the kidnapping of unsuspecting tourists, force-feeds them green slime, and turns them into trees, all so the little buggers can devour the plant people in a slobber-filled orgy
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The 20 Most Ruthless Movie Performances of All Time
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Read more: The 20 Most Ruthless Movie Performances of All TimeThe Dark Gospel According To Matt Cale
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Assholes of the Cinema: Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Read more: Assholes of the Cinema: Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)Miss Jean Brodie is, as she will utter a good dozen times in the course of this film, “in her prime.” She has sacrificed everything for her craft, and “her girls” – the young ladies attending the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland – are her raison d’etre.
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The Unsung: Frederick, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
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Read more: The Unsung: Frederick, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)Frederick is tired. As an artist, he is beholden to a fickle public, yet he has nothing but contempt for those who buy his wares. “I don’t sell my work by the yard,” he sneers