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  1. Remember an innocent sex cinema? This Danish schoolboy sex comedy was a European smash hit before porn was legalized tinyurl.com/mkz59l
  2. Pre-Bullitt Steve McQueen tried a more humanist characterization in his only Oscar nominated role tinyurl.com/ouf87g
  3. Depictions of snuff movies in cinema take their aesthetics from this Joe D'Amato / Laura Gemser transgressive classic tinyurl.com/6pu5ldc
  4. Perhaps the most obscure Sherlock Holmes movie ever made, this was heavily cut for US release tinyurl.com/bvvk8b6
  5. Seldom seen comedy has cameos from Spike Milligan, Penelope Keith, Kenneth Williams, Prunella Scales + many Brit vets tinyurl.com/bvvk8b6
  6. @Brasilmagic have been abroad teaching and away from partner for long time - miss intimacy and cuddling with her so much :)
  7. Morally-relativist, atheistic Western as Vietnam War allegory - one of Robert Aldrich's best late-career films tinyurl.com/nohjdq
  8. Researching this one was rather fun tinyurl.com/7lyfuyb 1st ever anthology of movie taglines originally in print now in ebook
  9. Wim Wenders succeeded in bringing genuine humanity to a stylized mythification of hard-boiled author Dashiell Hammett tinyurl.com/l32otr
  10. @kazzadraskmedia I'm 1969: but admire early Foster films (Taxi Driver and Little Girl Who Lives Down Lane) but, yes Foxes is superb :)
  11. Schwazenegger was supposed to have his first sex scene with one of TV's later Desperate Housewives but he fought it tinyurl.com/3zznrw2
  12. Nazi sexploitation began on a high with The Night Porter and after much Eurosleaze in 70s found cultural approval with tinyurl.com/pm8myu
  13. In time, intend bio-filmog profiles for all major directors and cast members referenced in film reviews, starting with tinyurl.com/m4jr4q
  14. Manchurian Candidate director John Frankenheimer examined Italian Red Brigade terrorism in neglected 90s thriller tinyurl.com/pkpjfk
  15. site is up in functioning form but construction continues daily as new films, bios and ebooks added tinyurl.com/pnhw6h
  16. integrating film reviewing and digital publishing so film retro-site has developing ebook range on Kindle, Apple, B&N + tinyurl.com/pnhw6h
  17. found an unusual Chinese exploitation genre: the 731 film, about the Japanese medical experiment / comfort women ethos - must get translator
  18. UK's Tony Richardson in USA helmed Jodie Foster / Rob Lowe as incestuous siblings in sprawling John irving adaptation tinyurl.com/6rksqmv
  19. When I return to Australia after completing TESOL in China, will return to film writing full time: need a fresh project to pitch McFarland
  20. Moral relativism in genre cinema: Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster examine Christian moral hypocrisy in savage western tinyurl.com/nohjdq