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Leave the World Behind

Leave the World Behind

★★★★★

As we see it, LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is a wonderful, 2-hour commercial for MissingMovies.org. When the world has gone to hell, one has to turn to physical medium! :-)

Missing Movie of the week! Written and directed by Sarah Kernochan, and co-produced by MM's Ira Deutchman it stars Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Monica Keena, Heather Matarazzo and Rachael Leigh Cook in an ensemble cast as students of the fictional Miss Godard's Preparatory School for Girls, and Lynn Redgrave as the school's headmistress. The film takes place in 1963 and focuses on several students' plotting and sabotage of a proposed merger for the school to go coed. Axed by Miramax, it still remains an influential film. It's screening this Wednesday, August 23rd at the Metrograph in NYC! metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999003358

Missing Movie of the Week is Barry Levinson's "Original Diner Guys," a documentary he made in 1999 and exists on 35mm film, but never distributed. Does anyone know its whereabouts? www.aspentimes.com/news/catching-up-with-boogie-and-his-buddies-in-original-diner-guys/

Missing Movies title of the week! Director David Burton Homes says that it was a Columbia title and thinks the rights have reverted to MGM. Since then, the film has been in limbo. Any information would be appreciated!

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Bushman

Bushman

★★★★½

There's really no way to talk about this film's unique construction and power without spoiling the turn it takes two-thirds of the way through, and far be it from me to do that here. Suffice to say, BUSHMAN is a startlingly intimate, blackly funny, and ultimately deeply tragic portrait of Black life in America that's both a snapshot of an extremely specific time and place (San Fransisco in the late 60's) and an indictment of how little has changed in the country since then. Unmissable.

What do you do when your lead actor is deported half way into production? Really unlike anything out there.

Whoa! Loved it from the beginning, and that ending.

Bushman

Bushman

★★★★½

Whooooooa youngest Jack Nance I've ever seen. Among the youngest Jack Nance any movie goer has ever seen, to be quite frank.

Even having read about it beforehand, the last ten minutes hit like a ton of bricks. Insane to be making a movie just to have it derailed by (seemingly) the exact thing the unfilmed portion of the movie was going to be about. I'd say what they did here was making lemonade out of lemons, but that particular…