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A great early 80s indie that humorously captures New York in all of its sleaze, rot, and dreams. You really feel like you can taste this film. Excellent debut feature by a terrific director.

A brilliant and disturbing look into the life of underground comic book artist Robert Crumb and how art provided him a creative outlet from the personal demons within his dysfunctional family. Featuring interviews with Crumb, his friends, family, and former lovers -- director Terry Zwigoff explores in depth the artist;s obsessive sexual fantasies and the sociological and personal perceptions of his work. At the same time, there are revealing interviews with Crumb's tormented brothers that are haunting in their honesty. Despite the grim subject matter, this is one of the most complex and ambivalent portraits of an artists that we've seen.

One of the best movies i've ever seen. The Sweet Hereafter is a heartbreaking movie and a brilliant one... subtle, deeply layered and powerful. The touching story of a town's tragedy and the equally tragic, broken lawyer that is trying to exploit it is slow paced, deliberate and filled with top notch acting. Egoyan uses every trick in the book but does it seamlessly: slow pans, odd angles, and courtroom procedural tropes mix in an incredible cinematic melange spearheaded by a stunning Ian Holm in probably the best performance of his career. The Sweet Hereafter is a masterpiece of cinema.

One of the many smart and daring American movies of the 70's. An important movie about labour unions and why they need to exist. This and MATEWAN need to be viewed back to back. This one first because of Sally Fields touching and human performance. Matewan second because it just hits harder. You'll come out of both wanting to go on strike.

Watch this movie for the brilliantly performed monologue by the great Savannah Welch. It's the culmination of a character's descent in depravity. Like pealing away the layers of an onion. It's wonderfully written and the director really allows Welch to do her thing with an extremely long push in that stays at this insane close on her depraved face as she sets up a totally cathartic final act of the film.

With the combination of a hilarious script and the auteur's usual stylistic flair, Scorsese's tale of a computer programmers slow descent into madness perfectly captures the absurd nature of New York's late night insanity. A truly bizarre odyssey and one of the director's sneaky best.

Ghost Dog, as simple as it might feel, is a beautiful, deep, multicultural and philosophical experience that on JJ could define in such an intelligent and amusing way with a solid mixture of japanese poetry, the criminal underground, and genuinely funny and dark humor.