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Trilogy of Life: The Decameron (1971)/The Canterbury Tales (1972)/Arabian Nights (1974)

Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:37 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

For me, these films were a gateway. I was living in Seattle, going to grad school, renting movies compulsively (it helped that I lived down the street from one of the best video stores in the country, Scarecrow Video). I … Continue reading →

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Altered States (1980)

Posted on March 4, 2013 at 5:35 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

After a decade of hits in his native U.K., Ken Russell arrived in Hollywood with the mind-bending Altered States (1980). It’s the story of an experimental psychologist, Eddie Jessup (William Hurt, in his big-screen debut), who theorizes that experimenting with … Continue reading →

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The Car (1977)

Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:03 am by Jeff Kuykendall

First there was Duel, Steven Spielberg’s 1971 TV-movie about man vs. truck. Then came Jaws (1975), which Spielberg says he accepted partly because of the parallels with Duel; he even reused the same “roar” for the shark’s death that he … Continue reading →

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