Tag: Peter Weller
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Extreme Cinema! “I’d Buy That For a Dollar!”
Tonight, we discuss the selected work of Paul Verhoeven, from 1983’s De Vierde Man to his most recent movie, Elle, which earned Isabelle Huppert an Academy Award nomination in 2016. The credits appear to be a fly caught in a web, interspersed with images of Christ on the crucifix. A spider catches the fly and…
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Vintage Cable Box: Of Unknown Origin, 1983
“Watch and weep, you furry fucker.” Of Unknown Origin, 1983 (Peter Weller), Warner Bros. 1983 was the year of the yuppie. The unusual, one-line Google search engine description defines “yuppie” as a well-paid young middle-class professional who works in a city job and has a luxurious lifestyle. The term, being coined in 1982 by Joseph…