The Eyes of the Mummy

#36 in my ranking of Ernst Lubitsch's filmography. If there's one kind of film Ernst Lubitsch is known for it's...globe-trotting adventure stories? Okay, it's early in his career, well before he'd developed the Lubitsch touch much less made it his signature, but this is just so strikingly different from everything I know about him that…

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Cool and the Crazy

#8 in my ranking of Ralph Bakshi's filmography. With Cool World being a critical and commercial bust, Ralph Bakshi found his last feature film work making a movie for Showtime based on a script he'd had laying around for more than twenty years. Well, it certainly does feel like the work of a much younger…

Cool World

#7 in my ranking of Ralph Bakshi's filmography. There were production troubles with Cool World, and some of that blame can be placed on Kim Basinger. Reportedly, Basinger approached Ralph Bakshi and the producer, Frank Mancuso, halfway through production saying she wanted to make a film that she could show to sick children in hospitals.…

Hey Good Lookin’

#9 in my ranking of Ralph Bakshi's filmography. It's really not a surprise that Hey Good Lookin' is a return to the mean of what Ralph Bakshi was making before Wizards since it was sort of made pre-Wizards as a live-action film combined with animation ala Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. However, Warner Bros.…

Coonskin

#6 in my ranking of Ralph Bakshi's filmography. This might be all of Ralph Bakshi's worst impulses in one film. I know that the reappraisal of Bakshi's work has placed this near the top, but this might be the most incoherent thing he's made up to this point in his career. It's all over the…