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SEQUELS...
In this episode, I take a look at one of the most infamous film debacles of all time: John Boorman's ill-advised, poorly conceived, crowd-displeasing follow-up to one of the greatest and most popular horror films ever made.
How could it go wrong? From the start, throughout, and even after release. Let me count the ways.
Also, a bit on our current moment of performative reclamation of movies that are just demonstrably awful. Resist!

One of the great newspaper movies, a great NYC location movie, a great set-dressing movie, a great acting movie...on and on. The Paper deserves more recognition; it's aged particularly well as a love letter to and from a very particular time in the media business.

Summer's rapidly ending and it's time to get back to the FCAC rhythm and routine.  Some thoughts on the passing of Dolly Parton and some UK crime shows I've been watching of late, notably the Apple TV series 'Criminal Record'.

Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 NYC love-letter/romantic comedy Crossing Delancey is one of the superlative NYC films of all time.
And watching it today, it's hard not to mourn the loss of the sense of collective experience as New Yorkers she puts onscreen, given our current situation in the City of so much divisive rhetoric and violence.
And this film righteously upends the conventions of its genre and allows a fantastic collage of actors to shine in roles as notable for their refusal to stereotype as they are for their humor and depth of feeling.
Rachel Syme's great essay City Girl, about Crossing Delancey

Go and see 'The Odyssey' in the biggest and best theater you can. You won't regret it. A rollicking great epic cinematic event.
Historian Tom Holland interviews Actor Tom Holland on The Rest is History.
The Rest Is History does The Odyssey (the poem).