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This week's streaming suggestions: Jenny Agutter in the Outback, bitter Bosnian comedy, philosophical Chilean hunt for bones in the desert, fresh 90s bi rom-com, the chilliest French family film ever, maybe the best Brit silent film, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New film-every-day streamables, including Gilliam's hit remake of LA JETEE, a claymation memoir about the Khmer Rouge, the best 60s omnibus film, Michael Almereyda pitting virtuality against dementia, the weirdest '40s film noir, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

This week's film-every-day suggestions: Chaplin on Hitler, Lucretia Martel AND Craig Baldwin on colonialism, Pentecostal chicanery, samurai blues, Nazi alchemists(!), and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New 365 film-a-day ideas: Syberberg's monumental Hitler thing, Altman's last great movie, de Sica's still-best Neo-realist, Bill Paxton's only shot at directing, the only film to come out of Lesotho (so far), and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New week's worth of streamers: Demy does noir, Gilliam does Grimm, William Klein dishes haute couture, Jarmusch does jo & smokes, plus a little-seen African myth-film, and maybe the new century's best teen rom-com... medium.com/smashcut-film/…

This week's film-a-day recommendations: Truffaut's best film, the New German Cinema's most dire, the most heroic doc about Asperger's, looking back on Nazi propaganda, Tarkovsky's lost 8th film, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New one-film-a-day streamables, including Ruiz on Klimt, Park Chan-wook's best film, Ingmar Bergman's toughest, Alain Delon in the Riviera, Alex Cox on the Mexican highway, a doc on Holocaust culture, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

What to watch! New Film-Every-Day recommendations, from the greatest forgotten feminist horror film of the '50s to Jules Verne extravagance, Pre-Code bloodsport in the jungle, social-media horror, Neil Labute's evil twin of Dilbert, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New film-a-day commendations: Phillipe Garrel's masterpiece, Claude Chabrol's autumnal years, Chris Marker's nostalgia for early Soviet film, 21st-century indie-neo-noir, the oddest comedy of the last few decades, in praise of the omnibus film, and more... medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New a-film-every-day column: from THE 60s Sex Rev farce and a pre-revolutionary Iranian classic, to reimagining Brueghel, Holocaust survival, nerdy teen comedies, primordial "mock docs," and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New film-a-day recommends: meta-farcical Romanians, Shymalan's only good film, French schoolchildren, neglected Wajda, Stefania Sandrelli in mid-pimp, Aboriginal injustice, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New film-a-day ideas -- Tilda Swinton goes transgender, George Clooney revisits the '70s, Dick Powell goes full noir, the oddest '70s drive-in film never released, Terence Malick does Pocahontas, et al. -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New every-day-a-new-film ideas, for very alt-y New Years: Brakhage on war, Morrison on WWI, Bergman on family, rebel-feminist Iranian film, Christopher Nolan's best movie, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New film-a-day ideas, 'specially for Chrimbo Limbo!: Rivette, new demi-Rivettian indies, Isabelle Huppert in the Philippines, giant shrews, Czech bad dreams, pioneering "race film" classics, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New film-a-day recommendations for the holidays -- going back to 1905, forward to little Natalie Wood and capitalist-outcast Rudolph and Peter Billingsley, and detouring, un-holiday-ishly, toward Jodorowsky's late-middle-age opus. medium.com/smashcut-film/…

New a-film-every-day stream recommendations: classic Ozu, forgotten French u-boat thriller, meta-postmod racial-identity indie, Francesco Rosi roasting Italian politics AGAIN, Hong Sang-soo's first comedy, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…

This week's movie-a-day urgings: from colonialist Indian silents to neo-Universal Horror icons to a Black Panthers remake of THE INFORMER, to Cold War espionage and whatever it is that Kawasaki guy has been doing... medium.com/smashcut-film/…

Today in Film History!: Criminal-gang anthem movie, creepy-teen bedroom-poster staple, lurid DePlama genre riff, Pacino self-immolation, mock-farcical gangster pastiche? All of the above? SCARFACE was had its New York premiere this day 38 years ago (1983).

Today in Film History!: Tragically, Hollywood demigoddess Natalie Wood -- a star from the time she was 8 years old -- drowns under mysterious circumstances, off husband Robert Wagner's boat sometime during the night (1981). The investigation has since been reopened several times.

This week's streaming recommends: Herzog does grizzlies, Bollywood does generational rebellion, Gilbert & Sullivan do "Japan," Fernando Arrabal does neo-Surrealism, Hong Sang-soo does toxic masculinity, and more -- medium.com/smashcut-film/…