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The promising first feature of director Noel Black's long, uneven career, Pretty Poison opened unpromisingly enough in 1968 New York, played without press-preview fanfare at the Riverside Theatre at 96th and Broadway, and then disappeared with barely a ripple - an indignity that Film Forum's week-long revival moves to redress.

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Two things keep me coming back year after year to the New York Film Festival. The first is that it's actually possible to see the whole thing.

A worn-out "gun slinging hooker" is tried for murder and is nice enough to not tell her defense lawyer, "By the way, I'm your mother." That's the tear-duct-tickling plot of Madame X , the Gerard Alessandrini and Robert Hetzel entry at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, which proves to be an affectionate rendition of the tale, with comic ... (more)

My fault for not posting a reminder regarding the first of two screenings of Noel Black's latter-day comic film noir "Pretty Poison," from 1968, which took place yesterday at Film Society of Lincoln Center in the context of a series of films featuring Tuesday Weld - but there's another , Saturday at 8:15. It's a movie I've lived with more or less ... (more)