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The Unloved, Part 96: Hail Mary
Scout Tafoya celebrates Jean-Luc Godard's controversial 1985 film Hail Mary, and eight years of Unloved essays.
Scout Tafoya is a film critic, video essayist, filmmaker, and author of Cinemaphagy: On The Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper, the first book-length critical study of the director of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Originally from from Doylestown, PA, he is the creator of RogerEbert.com's The Unloved, the longest running video essay series on the web, about movies in need of a second look. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Film Comment, Nylon Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Film Stage among others. He is the director of over 25 feature films including "Eyam," "House of Little Deaths," and "Beata Virgo Viscera," which debuted on RogerEbert.com. His features and his extensive video essay work can be found at Patreon.com/honorszombie.
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Scout Tafoya celebrates Jean-Luc Godard's controversial 1985 film Hail Mary, and eight years of Unloved essays.
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