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Losing Cannon's Loose Canon
As time passes, once disreputable or barely considered movies are re-reviewed: film noir has long been made classic fare on par with glossier Hollywood, and "70s horror and exploitation were more recently brought back into the fold. The bulk of the Cannon Films corpus - cheap "80s ass-kickers for undiscriminating multiplex audiences - is unlikely to ever benefit from such crate-digging instincts. In making a case for the oft-reviled producing team of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, Lincoln Center"s retrospective focuses on auteur-friendly cinema, the anomalies in the company"s slate.