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Plot:
Vietnam vet John Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street...( read more 
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MCT:May 26, 2008Interested
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MCT:October 25, 2008
Brian DePalma's satire of the late 60s/early 70s is a somewhat uneven affair - like two films in one. In "one of the films," Robert De Niro plays John Rubin, apparently the same lead character from DePalma's "Greetings" (1968), an oddball Vietnam vet who moves into an extremely rundown flat in the Village upon his return to New York (the opening scene with Charles Durning reminds me of the first landlord I had when I moved out of my mom's apartment!). De Niro has decided to sell an idea to a local pornographer to set up an 8mm camera in his window and "peep" on the neighbors across the street. He then takes to seducing one of them (Jennifer Salt). The "second story," and by far the more interesting and substantial one, concerns a group of radical theatre actors who are preparing an audience-participation play called "Be Black Baby" (this also provides the name for one of the film's many songs). Their experiment to show upper-middle-class white people in circa 1970 New York what it's like to be black in America is funny, sad, and thought-provoking. How these two stories collide and co-mingle I will leave you to discover, though I will say that it's a bit contrived. DePalma was still beginning to bud here as a filmmaker, though he would carry his theme of voyeurism with him into such great future works as "Sisters," "Dressed to Kill," "Blow Out," "Body Double," and "Femme Fatale," among others. A decent start if ever there was one.
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MCT:August 5, 2008Although this movie has some interesting concepts and ideas, it was slow and disjointed. Half of the film was about a radical theatre group, and we're not sure why. The main character never seems to achive anything, and (we suppose) he ends up in the same situation as before the events took place. Plus, he destroyed a building full of people just to get away from a girl?!
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MCT:July 28, 2008Why can't De Palma keep making movies like this, It's not perfect but it is alot more ambitious than the last few films he's put out. It's counter cuture satire that still holds up today. Whats incredibe is that you would think De Niro would just be ok with this being one of first lead roles, but he's spot on and looks like a performance he could have given yesterday. The best thing about the film is how it changes mood so easily, going from funny to genuinely frightening. it is a little long in places but at only 90 mins it's not that big a deal.
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MCT:February 22, 2008
Before turning into a suspense auteur, Brian DePalma directed this subversive little film, heavily inspired by the vanguardist french nouvelle vague. A sequel of "greetings" in which he let DeNiro run the show with amazingly funny results.
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