Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

So Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" is earning all those accolades and Oscar buzz. And in a whim and out of guilty pleasure, I'm downloading a series of Carpenters videos on VEOH. And I'm not in an aggro-grindcore-punk-hiphop-garage mood. So then, I give you (IF it remains undeleted for the time being) this classic student film, still technically banned, but handed down from video generation to generation (this looks like a 5th-gen copy) and an underground film fest fave. Alternately creepy, cruel, campy, and poignant. Like "Nosferatu," it was supposed to be destroyed forever many moons ago, but refuses to die.