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[T]hat's the trouble with Anderson's "Boogie Nights", an ambitious exploration of the American porno film industry. Its elaborate visuals and 1970s soundtrack instantly remind one of Scorsese's breakthrough film "Mean Streets". Anderson, a director who makes no secret of his admiration for both Scorsese and the similarly iconic Robert Altman is clearly talented but here, rather than being his own man, he only succeeds in flattering his idols.
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BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) was widely anticipated as a film about porn. Indeed, once the film actually appeared, many reviews and articles echoed this theme promoted by the film's advance publicity campaign. Review titles include the following: "BOOGIE NIGHTS takes trip through 70s porn industry" (Downing, 8E); "Adventures in the Skin Game" (Vorhees); and "Putting the plot into '70s porno" (USA Today). A Knight-Ridder AP Wire Service headline about the film declares,
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