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Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's obsession with bizarre lighting effects reached its apotheosis with his 1922 masterpiece Häxan. Beginning in a deceptively sedate fashion with a series of woodcuts and engravings (a technique later adopted by RKO producer Val...

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The operative word in Drugstore Cowboy is "drug". Matt Dillon plays the leader of a group of dopeheads who wander around the country robbing pharmacies to feed their habits. Dillon's chums include doltish James Le Gros and teen-age junkie Heather...

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Director Ron Mann has put together readings by 24 different poets (after filming a total of 60 writers reciting their works), and then has poet and author Charles Bukowski verbalize "everyman's" criticisms of poetry: it is boring, irrelevant, self-indulgent, and does not make much sense....

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1.   Mack The Knife - Nick Cave/Spanish Fly/Kenny Wollesen2.   Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife, The - PJ Harvey3.   Alabama Song - David Johansen/Ellen Shipley/Bob Dorough/Ralph Schuckett4.   Youkali Tango - Teresa Stratas5.   Lost in the Stars -...

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Don't mistake this movie for the stormy special-effects blockbuster of the same name; the two films are light years apart. Based on Mary Robison's novel Oh!, this Twister was the quirky first feature from screenwriter/director Michael Almereyda (Nadja,...

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Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. Uma Thurman plays Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very...

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Expatriate American writer Paul Bowles came to the limelight with an adaptation to screen by Bernardo Bertolucci of his first novel The Sheltering Sky. Subsequently, ambitious documentarists from several countries went down to Tangiers, Morocco where Bowles has been living for more than 50...

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Produced for theatrical released by PBS' American Playhouse, Bloodhounds of Broadway is not exactly a remake of the 1952 film of the same name, though both pictures use the same Damon Runyon stories as inspiration. The scene is Broadway: the time is New Year's Eve,...

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1.   Bradley The Buyer2.   Meeting Of International Conference Of Technological Psychiatry3.   Fish Poison Con, The4.   Thing Police Keep All Board Room Reports5.   Mr. Bradley Mr. Martin Hear Us Through The Hole In Thin Air6.   Where You...

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Jack Kerouac penned such books as On the Road and The Dharma Bums, which captured the essence of the bohemian life that he came to personify. This documentary follows him on the road from the life of a beatnik in New York City, and across the country to California,...

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This film looks at the life and works of counter culture literary icon William S. Burroughs. Burroughs became a hero to the Beat Generation and its spiritual descendants down to the present day. He is best known for his book, The Naked Lunch, which chronicles his life as an addict. His...

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1.   William's Welcome2.   Thanksgiving Prayer, A3.   Naked Lunch Excerpts4.   Ah Pook The Destroyer5.   After-Dinner Conversation6.   Kill The Badger7.   New Standard By Which To Measure Infamy8.   Sermon On The Mount 1,...

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More commonly known as the expatriate author of The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles actually first made his mark on the world as a composer. This documentary sets out to rediscover this forgotten master of 1930s American music. Shot in New York, Paris, and Tangiers, the film details his studies...

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This biographical documentary tackles the legend of Jack Kerouac, one of the foremost writers of the Beat Generation. Kerouac started a beat that goes on; he's still a major influence in contemporary literature and poetry. The author first broke into prominence with his famous...

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1.   Interlude 1 (Wrinkled Earlobes Are A Sign Of Impending Heartattacks)2.   Spare Ass Annie3.   Interlude 2 (This Is Insane)4.   Last Words Of Dutch Schultz (This Is Insane), The5.   Interlude 3 (The Vultures Are Gone And Will Never Come...

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