Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Music Box Theatre, November) The Music Box has come to specialize in reviving unsung American movies of the 1960s and '70s, forgoing the usual repertory suspects for moody genre films (Harper, The Outfit), studio-funded art movies (The Swimmer), and big ol' freak-outs with good soundtracks (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Phantom of the Paradise). This was an especially good discovery: Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) is unavailable on DVD, despite being the only movie written by Kurt Vonnegut.…
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