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Greaser’s Palace (Robert Downey Sr., 1972). Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives.

Expanded time: exceptional scenes from Happyend, The Mastermind, and The Secret Agent stir the viewer out of the solipsism of ...

(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified ...