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if…: Missa Luba
Mick Travis, the impish antihero of if… is (rightfully) obsessed with “Sanctus” from the Missa Luba, a Latin mass inspired by traditional Congolese music. Mick seems to be obsessed with all thing...
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if…: Tiger Woman
Christine Noonan was a mystery. if… was her first film, and she didn’t end up acting much more afterward besides some bit parts in TV shows. Some research reveals that she passed away in 2003 but...
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if…: French Revolutionaries
Zero for Conduct: click through to watch the whole film. Zero for Conduct (1933) is French film poet Jean Vigo’s first film. The film is an anarchist masterpiece following a small, almost accidental...
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if…: Heartthrob
Click to view slideshow. if… was Malcolm McDowell’s first film role. Let’s get excited for tomorrow with a look back at the many insane faces of this steely-eyed screen legend.Filed under: Youth in...
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BIG SHOT: if…
We keep coming back to movies that end in a fiery blaze. if… seems like the model upon which the classic American disillusionment cinema of the 1960s and 1970s is based. Zabriskie Point, Easy Rider,...
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OVER THE EDGE: Stupid and Contagious
Directed by first-timer Samuel Bayer, who speculates that he was hired because his reel looked so terrible, the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was the perfect visual accompaniment to Nirvana’s...
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Over the Edge: Mousepacks
Foster City is a planned community in Northern California built on what was once the San Francisco Bay Salt Marsh. These days, it is considered one of the top cities for rich people. However in 1973,...
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OVER THE EDGE: Tomorrow’s City Today
Click to view slideshow. Smashing in with the beginning of a perfectly crunchy Cheap Trick riff, the first frame of Over The Edge fills the screen with a sign for New Granada – “Tomorrow’s City Today!”...
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Over the Edge: Watch out for children
None of us would have ever seen Over the Edge because of the success of The Warriors. Upon The Warriors’ release in 1979, audience members rioted resulting in the deaths of three audience members....
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BIG SHOT: Over the Edge
The first image of Over the Edge is a billboard advertising New Granada as the wave of the future. New Granada: Tomorrow’s city… today. Later, another billboard, this time spotted amid being...
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