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play something else — Dunaway. McQueen. Thomas Crown Affair. 1968

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Easy Rider: An Alluring Notion of Freedom
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Collected Reviews by Ian M. Clarke

2001: A Space Odyssey: Or Why Humans Don’t Belong in Space
A Dandy in Aspic: Hell is Other People
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The: A Triumph in Horror-Comedy
After Hours: Scorcese Does Buster Keaton
Ballad of Tam Lin, The: The Manson Family Goes to Scotland
Barbarella: Sex & Special Effects
Billy Jack: Jekyll & Hyde Go Hippy
Black Sunday: A Horror that thinks it’s a Romance
Blast of Silence: An existential wail
Blood & Black Lace: Horror of Hallucination
Blowup: Existentialism vs. Capital Investment
Brides of Dracula, The: a vampire battles chronic health issues
Carnival of Souls: A World Without Money
Casino Royale (1967) “The name is Bond, Jimmy Bond”
Cemetery Man: The Enduring Irony of Zombies
Charley Varrick: Breathing in an Analogue World
Ciao! Manhattan: Edie Sedgwick Shatters the Third & Fourth Walls
Danger: Diabolik: Look, Don’t Watch
Daughters of Darkness: The Banality of Evil
Death Laid an Egg
Don’t Look Now: When Evil Loses its Context
Don’t Make Waves: Or ‘How a 60’s FrankenFilm Pulls it Off
Dracula & Frankenstein: A Crypt, a Castle and Nietzsche
Dracula A.D. 1972: Charles Manson Meets Van Helsing
Easy Rider: An Alluring Notion of Freedom
Endless Summer, The: Kerouac On the Beach
Equinox: Wonders of the World Are Many
Eye of the Devil: Sharon Tate Breaks the Fourth Wall
Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!: Campy Menace
Fearless Vampire Killers, The: The Challenge of Comedy Horror
Forbidden Room, The: How to Manipulate Deception
Haunting, The: The POV Becomes You
Head: The Monkees’ Suicidal Act of Deconstruction, man
Hospital, The: A Multi-Genre D.O.A.
I Vampiri: Such Casual Horror
Incubus: Of Shatner, Esperanto & Demons
Iron Rose, The: An Equation of Gothic Seduction
Long Goodbye, The: Rip Van Winkle woke up in 1973
Lust of the Vampire: Horror Goes Zen
M*A*S*H: Or Animal House Goes to Korea
Magical Mystery Tour: The Whole is Greater Than the Parts
Marcoc 7: C’mon Baby! And dance the Retrosploitation
McCabe and Mrs. Miller: A Snow Poem
Mickey One: Franz Kafka does Stand Up
Mississippi Mermaid: The Importance of Catherine Deneuve’s Face
Murder by Contract: When Death Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Night of the Following Day, The: ‘Brando Light’
Omega Man, The: Of Camp and Cult
Parallax View, The: Can We Really Trust a Film?
Performance: Enchanted by its own appearance
Planet of the Apes: More Clever than Camp
Playtime: Stanley Kubrick Meets Buster Keaton
Point Blank: More Zen than Existential
Private Property: The Swimming Pool at World’s End
Repo Man: What a Cult Film is Supposed to Do
Rififi: Resigned to The Combat Zone
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The: Why Dreams are Everything
Seventh Victim, The: How to Mix Genres
Some Girls Do: Diamonds R’ Forever, but Parody Ain’t
Soylent Green: Little Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Suspiria: When Light is Your Protagonist
Tenebre: The Nightmarish Force of B-Films
Tenth Victim, The: originality that exceeds necessity
There’s a Girl in My Soup: A reluctant sex farce
Thomas Crown Affair, The: Beauty Needs No Excuse
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London: Time Machines Are Always Jumpy
Tony Rome: The Odd Appeal of An Anachronism
Touchables, The: A Gateway Film to Wonderland
Two-Lane Blacktop: To Be in Hell is to Drift
Valley of the Dolls: The Enduring Art of Awfulness
Walk on the Wild Side: Shaky Ground
Whip & the Body, The: It’s Effort not Accomplishment
Who Killed Teddy Bear?: Better call Sal
Wicker Man, The: The Citizen Kane of Horror
Wild Ones on Wheels: The Important Endurance of Bad Films
Witchfinder General: The Horror of Detachment
Withnail & I: Hamlet Leaves Town
Wonderwall: A Home Movie from a Colorful Time
Wrecking Crew, The: Menefreghismo at its Best
Zabriskie Point: A Static Road Picture
Zardoz: James Bond in One Million Years B.C.

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