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Monday, August 3, 2009

"Return to Oz"

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When I ask people about the sequel to "The Wizard of Oz", people usually shrug their shoulders, a clueless look on their faces. If for some reason you missed this in the mid 80's, you might want to rent it. For a children's film, it was pretty damn disturbing! Walter Murch was one of the first directors to take a previous property and drizzle his own stamp over it where you could hardly recognize the original. Now it's par for the course. The film performed poorly at the BO, but in my eyes was absolutely visionary. Here's the trailer..



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