Category: Movies
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Nashville (1975)
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Read more: Nashville (1975)Having seen this film at least five times, I’m only now coming to terms with its brilliance…
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Gunga Din
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Read more: Gunga DinWhite Man’s Burden…
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Read more: The Wages of Fear (1953)Humanity is no match for the power of hunger.
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Viva Knievel! (1977)
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Read more: Viva Knievel! (1977)In the same year that Star Wars was shattering box office records and shifting the culture to a new dimension of merchandising, special effects, and unending Mark Hamill mania, an old icon was inhaling the fumes of a once proud career
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Fight Club: Consumerism, Anarchy, And The Search For Purpose
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Read more: Fight Club: Consumerism, Anarchy, And The Search For PurposeIn the context of an individual entity like a human, there is nothing inherently objective when it comes to the idea of purpose.
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Cruising (1980)
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Read more: Cruising (1980)Seriously, what the fuck is up with William Friedkin’s Cruising? That it’s homophobic is beyond dispute, but more than that, its greatest crime is against the very craft of filmmaking.
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Sorcerer (1977)
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Read more: Sorcerer (1977)Several actors were offered roles and declined. Among them was Robert Mitchum, who asked, “Why would I want to go to Ecuador for two or three months to fall out of a truck? I can do that outside my house.”
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
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Read more: Sasquatch Sunset (2024)The wordless opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s seminal sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most memorable and influential of all time, but let’s be honest: it could have used more piss, shit, vomit, and fucking.
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Raiders Of the Lost Ark
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Read more: Raiders Of the Lost ArkIndiana Jones hates snakes, and Nazis. In that order.
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The Act of Killing (2012)
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Read more: The Act of Killing (2012)Lights…Camera…Genocide. Man’s inhumanity to man. The banality of evil. One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.