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Nathan Cook
Films and Only Films
Film Lover of New Hampshire
Dogme: '95-''20
Film critique of every enticing entry from El Topo to The Exorcist
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welker831
Oct 244 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Well, here we are. The crowning achievement of this "Out of Circulation Series," that rare, notoriously difficult to track down gem: Dawn...
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welker831
Aug 193 min read
Out of Circulation Series: The Turning Point (1977)
"The effort here is to domesticate ballet, to remove the taint of European decadence; most of the characters are so heartland ordinary...
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welker831
Aug 113 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Looking For Mr. Goodbar
The Paramount logo draws you in with snapshots of Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) partying at various nightclubs; the rapid fire snapshots...
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welker831
Jul 314 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Crash (1996)
Well, where to start with this one? Crash is directed by David Cronenberg: the master of body horror. Before this film, his idea of body...
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welker831
Jul 242 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Missing (1982)
"Costa-Gavras's antipathy to Americans appears to be so deep-seated that he can't create American characters. The only real filmmaking is...
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welker831
Jul 32 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Coming Home
My first viewing of Coming Home was several years ago, back when it was out-of-circulation, and occasionally screened on Turner Classic...
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welker831
Jun 232 min read
Out of Circulation Series: The Conqueror (1956)
Historical epics were all the rage in the 1950's. David Lean was the trailblazer, winning over audiences and sweeping the Oscars with The...
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welker831
Jun 113 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Martin (1977)
A decade after Night of the Living Dead popularized the concept of the zombie, George A. Romero reinvented the genre with his now...
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welker831
Jun 83 min read
Out of Circulation Series: The Sorrow And The Pity
"Asked by his grandson what he had felt during the occupation, the elderly pharmacist said he felt 'sorrow and pity.'"-Marcel Ophuls The...
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welker831
Jun 33 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk is based on the short story "Where Have You Gone, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, and for a long time it was a...
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welker831
May 263 min read
Out of Circulation Series: The Contender
Red Rock West made me feel a little sad: I had an obsolete edition of a well acted, but poorly formatted film on the brink of vanishing...
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welker831
May 253 min read
Out of Circulation Series: Red Rock West
In the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer special, there is an "Island of Misfit Toys" where toys are abandoned because no kid wants to play...
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welker831
May 44 min read
9 1/2 Weeks
9 1/2 Weeks was a film arriving under a "shroud of mystery and scandal" in 1985 (Roger Ebert's words, not mine). Word of mouth had...
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welker831
Jan 44 min read
Double Feature: Sliver/Jade
"Where could we better stoke the fires of our masochism than at rotten movies in gaudy seedy picture palaces in cities that run together,...
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welker831
Nov 21, 20234 min read
Double Feature: Terms of Endearment & Driving Miss Daisy
"This is the kind of bogus picture that would get people to say 'I saw myself in those pictures. What's infuriating about it is the...
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welker831
Nov 18, 20233 min read
Mommie Dearest
"It's deeper than an impersonation; she turns herself into Joan Crawford, all right, but she's more Faye Dunaway than ever. She digs into...
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welker831
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part II
Imagine it: it's a cold winter night in Concord, New Hampshire in 1974. You have moved into a new house on the outskirts of the woods....
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welker831
Nov 5, 20232 min read
Dead Alive
When Sam Raimi got his start with the low budget Evil Dead films, he was able to springboard onto the Spider-Man franchise soon after....
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welker831
Oct 30, 20233 min read
Cat People
It was October 24th, and I had officially run out of horror selections for the 2023 Halloween season. I'd caught up on iconic franchises...
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welker831
May 10, 202312 min read
Long Form Drama: 24
Disclaimer: If you are reading this blog for the first time, and you happened to read the homepage banner proclaiming that this site was...
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