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The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Format: Book
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The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie in |
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Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder - Paramount
Format: DVD
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Also highly notable are the featurettes "Stories of Sunset Boulevard" and "Sunset Boulevard Becomes a Classic," because of their mixture of interviews with actors (Nancy Olson as "Betty Schaefer") , critics (Andrew Sarris) , and Wilder's biographer, Ed Sikov.... |
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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Justin Ddmc 21780 Theroux - Universal Studios
Format: DVD
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Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say David Lynch, in Mulholland Drive, indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams,"... |
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Play It As It Lays: A Novel
Joan Didion - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas,... |
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Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling... |
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