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James Kenney
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Saved Peter Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Work featured in NY Times, Sight & Sound, New Yorker, LA Times TrembleSighWonder.com my site. Edited & wrote foreword to De Palma script. PB book coming, plus Jim McBride, Larry Cohen, Lizzie Borden books
Obscure YT of the day: Abel Ferrara's still not released in the U.S. MARY (2005). Sort of AF's response to PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Grahm, Marion Cotillard, Stefania Rocca star. Good stuff!

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November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If you're in NYC, I wouldn't sleep on @RoxyCinemaNYC screening of Abel Ferrara's super-rare 2 1/2 hour workprint cut of CAT CHASER on Sunday 11/30.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I love James Spader's 80s gang flick TUFF TURF so much I even got the promotional switchblade
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Italian Terence Hill somehow got a star vehicle, MR BILLION (1977), directed by Jonathan Kaplan (UNLAWFUL ENTRY, TRUCK TURNER, THE ACCUSED) w/Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason & Dick Miller! Shot by Matthew Leonetti(!) This played Radio City!

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November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Kinda crazy that a Terence Hill film (directed by TRUCK TURNER and THE ACCUSED's Jonathan Kaplan) was "The Great Easter Show" at Radio City Music Hall in 1977.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
RIP Udo Kier.
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Interesting selection at a NY Times Best of 65-75 series playing at the Paramount Theatre, NYC, in March 1977. Ad from 3/11/77
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Another good photo ruined by someone blinking.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Obscure YT of the day: John Carpenter wrote ZUMA BEACH (1978), w quite a cast: Suzanne Somers, Roseanna Arquette, PJ Soles, Michael Biehn, Timothy Hutton. Steve Keats, Kimberly Beck. Perry Lang & Tanya Roberts. Directed by Lee H. Katzin (LE MANS).

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November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Got tix for early december....
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Obscure YT of the day CITIZEN STEVE, a B&W CITIZEN KANE parody Amy Irving produced for Steven Spielberg's 40th birthday party in 1987! Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Michael Jackson, Irving, Robin Williams, Drew Barrymore, Michael J. Fox and more show up!

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November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
At a screening of GOD TOLD ME TO in Brooklyn tonight.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Obscure YT of the day: Brian De Palma's experimental, split-screen film of DIONYSUS IN 69 (1970). De Palma regular William Finley stars.

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Dionysus in '69 (1970) | Drama, Avant-Garde
YouTube video by Brian De Palma Archives
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November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
March 20th, 1970 NY Times ad for Brian De Palma's DIONYSUS IN 69.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Obscure FB of the night: KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK, which played theatrically in some markets. Directed by Gordon Hessler (OBLONG BOX, GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD). W/ Kiss and Anthony Zerbe!

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November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A genuine publicity still for Marlon Brando's ONE-EYED JACKS.
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Fred Williamson's SOUTH BEACH (1993)! Typical Williamson, but the cast!: Williamson, Gary Busey, Vanity, Peter Fonda, Robert Forster, Stella Stevens, Isabel Sanford, Henry Silva, Frank Pesce & Sam (Flash Gordon) Jones! It's not good, but...!

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November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I have proof that Fred Williamson's 2000 DOWN N DIRTY flick played theatrically(!) in New York City in Times Square for a week! And I went to see it opening Saturday night, where I and four older African-American gentlemen paid our respects to Black Caesar!
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Movies I saw theatrically at the UA Quartet in Queens:
The Night Stalker (w/ Charles Napier)
One Man Out (w/ Stephen McHattie)
Bulletproof (w/ Gary Busey)
Transylvania Twist (w/ Robert Vaughn)
Purgatory (w/ Tanya Roberts)
River of Death (w/ Michael Dudikoff)

I regret nothing!
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Magnum Force!
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s all laid out for you here—all the fun and the fiascos, all the memories, the pain and the pleasures, the films, the battles, the triumphs and misadventures that defined my career.” —from Larry Cohen’s I KILLED BETTIE DAVIS

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November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I think we're very unsettled this morning because if they can relegate Tom Cruise to an untelevised segment of the Academy Awards, it means they can relegate all of us to an untelevised segment of the Academy Awards.
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Obscure 80s of the day: Mary Lambert (PET SEMETARY) directed 1987's SIESTA, w/ Ellen Barkin, Gabrielle Byrne, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones & Julian Sands! The writer was a sculptor married to Zalman King & wrote a lot of his films!

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November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Obscure YT of the day: A blind guy, a guy w/ no hands, & a guy in a wheelchair rob a museum in 1973's BEG, BORROW & STEAL! Mike Connors (Mannix), Michael Cole (Mod Squad), Kent McCord (Adam 12), Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island). Directed by David Lowell Rich!

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November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM