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1984, U.S., 106m, 35mm

 

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Screened May 6, 2017

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A twisted take on the downtown ’80s, with sleazy Hollywood washout Eric Bogosian sleeping with and then murdering actress wannabe Zoë Tamerlis Lund (of Ms. 45 fame) and then using a lookalike (Lund again) to make a movie reconstruction of his crime. A playful tribute to Vertigo and clever send-up of De Palmaesque cinematic self-reflexivity. Print courtesy of The Academy Film Archive

A film by Larry Cohen