Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1968 • United States
Starring George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman
Director Sidney Lumet made his first foray into comedy with this wildly irreverent farce, rich in 1960s New York City flavor and Borscht Belt humor. When their buddy, the writer Leslie Braverman (“a second-rate talent of the highest order”), dies suddenly at the age of forty-one, a quartet of Jewish intellectuals pile into a Volkswagen Beetle and embark on a picaresque journey from Greenwich Village to Brooklyn to attend the funeral—with unexpected stops, oddball encounters, and much bittersweet philosophizing about everything from aging to the state of the world along the way.
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Born to Win
Directed by Ivan Passer • 1971 • United States
Starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula PrentissJ (George Segal), a former New York City hairdresser turned heroin junkie, sees his life spiral out of control as he bounces between committing petty crimes, a new relationship with a free-spirited ...
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
Directed by Ossie Davis • 1970 • United States
Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin LockhartAcclaimed actor and filmmaker Ossie Davis directs this rollicking blend of gritty neonoir and buddy-cop comedy, one of the first and most influential of the cycle of Blaxploitation fil...
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The Angel Levine
Directed by Ján Kadár • 1970 • United States
Starring Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida KaminskaJán Kadár, codirector of the Oscar-winning Czechoslovak New Wave touchstone THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET, made his Hollywood debut with this unique, long-overlooked adaptation of a Bernard Malamud story, ...
