Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for this 1970 Russ Meyer effort, which was given a (relatively) big-budget production by 20th Century-Fox.
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Juliette Binoche stars as a busy mother and professional journalist whose research on Parisian coeds who moonlight as prostitutes forces her to reevaluate her own relationships with men (especially her distracted husband and two troublesome sons).
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Sam Raimi directed this 1983 horror feature fresh out of film school, and his anything-for-an-effect enthusiasm pays off in lots of formally inventive bits.
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This 1975 feature is the best of John Waters's movies prior to Hairspray and his ultimate concerto for the 300-pound transvestite Divine, whose character will do literally anything—including commit mass murder—to become famous.
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William Friedkin directed this adaptation of Tracy Letts's play about a sadistic Dallas cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man. When he's hired by a trailer-park burnout (Emile Hirsch) who can’t pay the fee, the cop takes the client's younger sister (Juno Temple) as a "retainer."
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The operatic extravagance of Bernardo Bertolucci's style has emerged more clearly since this 1972 drama, which still managed to seem vaguely naturalistic in the midst of its extravagant camera moves and eccentric construction.
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This 1972 gross-out comedy by John Waters is now more than a generation old, and his brand of bad taste isn't quite the cottage industry it once was.
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The second feature by filmmaker and visual artist Steve McQueen indulges in the same chic, gallery-ready aesthetic as his first, Hunger (2008); but whereas that film confronted England's brutal imprisonment of IRA soldiers, this one simply recycles art-movie cliches about urban alienation and passionless sex.
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We may forget that the most radical rethinking of Marx and Freud found in European cinema of the late 60s and early 70s came from the east rather than the west.
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