******COSMIC SPOILERS!****** A couple of weeks ago, I was shopping a nearby Barnes & Noble when I came across a reissue paperback of Walter Tevis‘ 1963 sci-fi novel (and partial autobiography) “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” I’d seen British filmmaker Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film of it several times (most recently for this retrospective), but…
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*****TRUE SPOILERS!***** “La Totale!” (1991) Written by Simon Michaël, Didier Kaminka and director Claude Zidi, “La Totale!” was a French action-comedy involving a seemingly dull telecommunications employee, named François Voisin (Thierry Lhermitte) who misses a surprise 40th birthday party from his bored wife Hélène (Miou-Miou), while planting a surveillance device during a dangerous mission. François,…