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The Comix Section
Film Responses
Best of PACINO
Best of PFEIFFER
Directed by Brian De Palma
Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma)
Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma)
Best of the Late 2010s
Starring Frank Morgan
Dancing Pirate (1936, Lloyd Corrigan)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936, Robert Z. Leonard)
The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
Directed by John Sturges
The Capture (1950, John Sturges)
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953, John Sturges)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976, John Sturges), the extended version
Best of 2020
Starring Paul Newman
The Color of Money (1986, Martin Scorsese)
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
Twilight (1998, Robert Benton)
Nobody’s Fool (1994, Robert Benton)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971, Paul Newman)
Starring Russell Crowe
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022, Taika Waititi)
The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)
Man of Steel (2013, Zack Snyder)
Les Misérables (2012, Tom Hooper)
3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold)
Virtuosity (1995, Brett Leonard)
Best of HARTNETT
Halloween H20 (1998, Steve Miner)
Worst of HARTNETT
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