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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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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.