The Forgotten: Help!
David CairnsMax Linder, king of debonair comedy, works with arch-innovator Abel Gance for the one and only time in this short comedy.
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The Forgotten: The Film of Memory
David CairnsA chambermaid in a run-down hotel becomes enchanted by an aging courtesan, lost in the past, and finds the key to her own future.
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The Forgotten: Robo-Probo-Sabotage
David CairnsPilot Pirx is hired to command a space mission in which one or more humanoid robots will be among his crew. But can they be trusted?
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The Forgotten: Butterball
David CairnsA prostitute traveling by coach in Prussian-occupied France is compelled to sleep with a Prussian officer before her coach can continue.
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The Forgotten: Pagan Rhythms
David CairnsA disparate group of townspeople struggle to hold off a siege by warring Indians.
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The Forgotten: The Unheimlich Maneuver
David CairnsGraf Oetsch, suspected of his brother’s murder, arrives uninvited at a hunting party. Why is he here?
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The Forgotten: Europe After the Rain
David CairnsA naive young girl falls into the schemes of her sister-in-law’s previous husband, long thought dead, in post-war Berlin.
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The Forgotten: Capriccio Espagnol
David CairnsAn alluring young woman leads a nobleman to ruin, by first encouraging, then repelling his amorous advances. From Pierre Louÿs’ novel.
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The Forgotten: The Family Way
David CairnsAn obscure Frank Tashlin comedy exceeds expectations and reveals a fascinating phase in his artistic development.
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The Forgotten: Sticky Figments
David CairnsCraig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu is the first example I’ve seen of his brand of Bruce Conner-influenced experimental cut-up narratives.
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The Forgotten: Sparkles
David Cairns"This was never a fun place. Oh, they had a pool and everything, but it was never fun." The title 11 Harrowhouse (1974) has a grim sound to it, but it's a largely light movie, tipped over from heavy
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The Forgotten: The Red Sea Reels
David CairnsAbove: If you ever wondered what a pharaoh's nursery would look like... He was born Manó Kertész Kaminer in Hungary in 1886, began directing as Kertész Mihály, switched to