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River’s Edge  

By Keva York

Revisiting the teen movie they called “the most frightening horror” of 1986.

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Looking back at Diva, the film that heralded a movement

By Emerson Rosenthal

On the not-so-subtle transgressions of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s epochal 1982 film.

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Who Makes the Nazis?

By Nick Pinkerton

On Juraj Herz’s Czechoslovak New Wave landmark The Cremator.

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Roger Moore Gets Real

By Victoria Uren

On the pleasures of 007’s smudgy mirror to the world, and Roger Moore’s final outing as James Bond.

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Under (And Over) the Roofs of Paris

By Nick Pinkerton

On Polanski’s Frantic, and Harrison Ford’s exquisitely frayed performance.

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“And the Oscar goes to…”

By Kate Wolf

A taxonomy of Oscar speeches.

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The Pig Was Cool

By Nick Pinkerton

On the hogs-gone-wild Ozploitation flick, Razorback (1984).

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History Lesson – Part III: This Bland Could Be Your Life

By Nick Pinkerton

On Sir Drone, Raymond Pettibon’s la vie de bohème farce.

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Somebody’s Watching me

By Nick Pinkerton

On Patrick Tam’s Hong Kong New Wave watershed Nomad (1982).

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Edie and Viva

By Alexandra Auder

Looking back at John Palmer and David Weisman’s anomalous portrait of two Warhol superstars.

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Elaine May’s Worst-Kept Secret

By Keva York

On May’s pseudonymously penned screenplay Such Good Friends.

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Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Finest Follies

By Philippa Hawker

A close-up on six of Jean-Pierre Léaud’s finest comic performances.