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Midnight Video

An archive of two chaps, a laptop and a mic attempting to unearth the lost, forgotten and overlooked in cinema.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” - Pauline Kael

Midnight Video 31: Chronopolis, Blue Collar and Phenomena

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Chronopolis from the vintage film year 1982, is a Polish animation that employs claymation, stop-motion and early CGI, but it's a million miles away, thankfully, from the likes of Avatar.
Paul Schrader's directorial debut, Blue Collar features the unlikely trio of Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel and the reasonably straight Richard Pryor as co-workers and buddies in the automobile industry, but their live are about to turn upside down after a heist backfires.
And our new feature where we offer the listeners a chance to vote for one film from a director's filmography kicks off with Dario Argento's insect insanity, Phenomena.

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