"The Birthday Party" is William Friedkin's screen adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1958 play, a claustrophobic, frenzied tale of a surly British boarding house lodger terrorized by two interrogators from something called "The Organization." It was one of my favorite plays in college, and the only Pinter film adaptation I could not find on Netflix, so …
“The Choirboys” (1977)
UPDATE, April 18, 2012: "The Choirboys" is now available on Netflix Instant. "The Choirboys" is an appallingly offensive film, not least because it squanders the talents of some of the greatest character actors around, including Charles Durning, James Woods, Randy Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. However, from today's timid, politically correct perspective, it is fascinating …
“Diary of a Mad Housewife” (1970)
I rented "Diary of a Mad Housewife" from NYC's Video Room, which has thousands of hard-to-find or out-of-print titles stocked in its warehouse; you call ahead, request the movies, and pick them up in their tiny store on Third Avenue and 80th Street. Even for a movie from 1970, this particular video was in rough …
Movies both deserving and undeserving of obscurity
Hi, welcome to Hidden Films! My name is Sam Weisberg, and I'm a regular movie reviewer for Screen Comment and The L Magazine. Hidden Films is an in-depth guide to films not currently available on Netflix, which is now the dominant service for film lovers. It is not intended as a critique of Netflix, which …
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