Film critic and historian J. Hoberman presents two films and offers his insights on the intersection between politics and pop culture in Ronald Reagan’s America.
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A crazed would-be stand-up comic (Robert De Niro) becomes obsessed with a talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) in Scorsese’s prescient meditation on the American cult of celebrity.
A group of teenagers discover their friend has murdered his girlfriend—and do nothing about it—in this eighties cult hit, based on a real-life crime in Milpitas and starring Crispin Glover, Dennis Hopper, and Keanu Reeves.