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Richard Doyle
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"Robin and Marian" is a vastly underrated film.  Serious kudos for placing it so high in this list.

The Seven-Ups … even better chase than Ronin.

"Bad Taste" didn't make me actually throw up, but there's a scene in it that I will never watch again.  It has nothing at all to do with gore.

It's kind of funny you picked "The Dead" since that's a much easier "book" to adapt than "Under the Volcano", which Huston had adapted just 3 years earlier.

By "Now available on DVD from Shout! Factory" I guess you mean "Available on January 24th"

The animated section of "Annie Hall" looks like Inside Woody Allen because the comic strip was inspired by that section of "Annie Hall".

"nominally directed by Allan Arkush"?

"The Help" is a comedy???

"Michael Ritchie, who might have been as exalted as Hal Ashby had his career ended at the same time."

I'll tell you guys again … "The Star Wars Holiday Special" aired on Thanksgiving Weekend.  It's not an XMas special.

The Star Wars Holiday Special is not a XMas special.  I saw it when it aired in 1978.  It's intended as a Thanksgiving special.

In order to be a "Film That Time Forgot", wouldn't it technically need to be one that we would have been aware of at the time?  This isn't a forgotten film.  It's an extremely obscure foreign film that we're only aware of because Pete Tombs does a hell of a lot of research.

There's a much earlier use of the "body camera" shot that Wright talks about in "Seconds".  Cocteau uses it in "Beauty and the Beast".

Might be, but it's not:

The Canadian ratings system was quite different than the US one.  When I was a kid an R rating meant no one under 18 was admitted, PG meant you needed to be accompanied by an adult, and Mature and Mature: Not Suitable For Children were just kinda like warnings.

Notice the amount of clearance over the heads in the shot with the boom mic?  This flick was shot open matte and is supposed to be matted to 1.85:1

That's not the same movie.  It's the 1940 version of "The Black Cat" in that set.  It's pretty awful.

Eva Mattes' German pimps are uncredited, but the main guy … the blonde one … also appeared in a couple of Fassbinder films. He has a major part in "Beware a Holy Whore".

Weigand was the original bassist.

I saw them headline in Chapel Hill with Pegboy and The Didjits opening (in 1994 I think). One of the best shows I've ever seen.