Russ Meyer Amongst the Vixens ✦
A loose trilogy of newly restored Meyer movies confirm him as an auteur in tune with American horniness and American ugliness.
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Watch Along with The Reveal: 'Blue Velvet' ✦
To mark the passing of the great David Lynch we revisited his 1986 masterpiece via a feature-length audio commentary.
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In Review: 'Presence,' 'Grand Theft Hamlet'
Steven Soderbergh gets spooky and experimental while a new documentary chronicles an unusual staging of Shakespeare.
Under the Sycamore Trees: The Night ‘Twin Peaks’ Went Off the Air
With the finale to the original run, David Lynch patched together pieces of a broken series and set the stage for the rest of his career.
In Review: 'Wolf Man,' 'I'm Still Here'
A classic monster gets a revival while the latest from Walter Salles explores a more commonplace threat.
Richard Pryor Kept Trying to Tell Us Something About His Life ✦
Released in 1986, ‘Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling’ found the comic attempting to tell his personal history. It was one entry in an ongoing autobiography written in public.
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