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Actor: Isabelle Adjani

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Ishtar (1987) Review

Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-five million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…

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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.