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If you've ever lost an Ebay auction on an out of print dvd copy of a film no one has seen in 15+ years, my bad

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  • Casting Blossoms to the Sky
  • RoboCop
  • The Straight Story
  • Minamata Mandala

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  • Ornette: Made in America

    Ornette: Made in America

    ★★★★½

    I love Ornette Coleman, probably more than I should. And I love the late 70s to 80s Prime Time-era Coleman a lot. So this is extremely up my alley, and not something I would just generally recommend, especially to someone who knows nothing of Coleman and his music. This movie is a lot like Coleman’s music: it’s wild, all over the place, at times too chaotic for its own good, and at other times wonderful, breathtaking, and completely original. I…

  • A Taxing Woman

    A Taxing Woman

    ★★★★½

    My dirty secret is that I love taxes. I like paying them, I like filing them, I like them conceptually; I’m just a tax fan, I truly can’t help it. This is almost assuredly the best movie about taxes that has ever or will ever be made. Theres a lot of good stuff here: the 80s jazz score is perfect, the pacing is brisk but not too chaotic to lose coherency, the performances are all great. Hell, this movie starts with a ten minute montage of people doing tax crimes. What more could you want?

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  • Sex Jack

    Sex Jack

    A representative work which contains many of the themes and ideas that are prevalent in Wakamatsu’s late 60’s/early 70’s work, both politically and artistically, but not a film I particularly loved.

  • Lolita: Vibrator Torture

    Lolita: Vibrator Torture

    Pretty gross

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