The Player (#812) Garagehouse Pictures directed by Richard Linklater

directed by Richard Linklater

who won a Best Actress Oscar for Misery

and the bracing student films What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This

graphic violence and relentless sexual depravity

sexual peeing and murder by all conceivable forms ensue - including death by makeshift blowtorch

The Player (#812) Garagehouse Pictures directed by Richard LinklaterCriterion Collection. A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry satire from Robert Altman. Mixing elements of film noir with sly insider comedy, The Player, based on a novel by Michael Tolkin, functions as both a nifty stylish murder story and a commentary on it's own making, and it is stocked