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THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS

This National Film Board of Canada produced documentary is in the grand tradition of quirky Canadian nonfiction cinema

Just what the title says.

A long out of circulation 1930 poverty row wonder that has at last resurfaced

2020 was a hell of a year

Exotic Dancers and the devil: a curiously appropriate pairing, especially in Europe

If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap

The most fearsome and notorious Frederick Wiseman documentary of them all

A documentary about police officers from 1969 that seems especially relevant to 2020

Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984

Richard Stanley is one of the most interesting genre filmmakers on the scene, and also one of the least prolific