400 Blows was a game-changer while Truffaut’s final film, Confidentially Yours, is an absolute delight.
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My patron-funded exploration of the complete filmography of Virginia Madsen continues with 1986’s Modern Girls, a charming, funny and smart exploration of female friendship and the 1980s nightlife featuring an absolutely magnetic turn from Madsen.
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In honor of Neil Young’s very public stand against Spotify I am re-running a loving appreciation of his 1982 cult classic Human Highway, co-directed and co-starring the late, great Dean Stockwell.
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Al pays tribute to fellow New Wave oddballs Oingo Boingo in this zany exercise in the freewheeling comedy of randomness.
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In the weird mid aughts Disney and Devo joined forces to create Devo 2.0, which was just like Devo, but for kids! Astonishingly, it was not a big success.
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He was tense, he was nervous, it just wasn't his night...
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Did Al invent the mash-up? I'm probably wrong, but I'm gonna say yes.
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Our film by film exploration of the complete filmographies of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage kicks into high gear with a loving appreciation of Valley Girl, the sublime 1983 cult teen sex comedy about the star-crossed love of a Valley Girl (Deborah Foreman) and a punk bad boy played by a never sexier, never hunkier Cage.
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