Friday, January 18, 2013

"The Landlord" (1970)

Nearly 30 years after its release, Hal Ashby's 1970 black comedy of manners The Landlord remains a strange and visceral interrogation of race and gentrification. The film is gleefully problematic, and performs with grace and intelligence the sort of high-art "social autopsy" sought by its peers in the New Journalism. 


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