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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Maxwell Shane's The Naked Street (1955)
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The Naked Street is the penultimate of the five films Shane directed after writing dozens of B films (none of which I have seen), starting...
Monday, September 19, 2022
Edward Dmytryk's Obsession (1949)
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It is safe to say that the HUAC trauma, if it did foster Dmytryk's neurotic dispositions, did not create them, as they can be traced alm...
Friday, September 16, 2022
It Walks by Night by John Dickson Carr
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But the point is, as you know, Doctor, that we know our friends rather by their mannerisms than by their exact appearance; for if their ma...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Stanley Donen's Royal Wedding (1951)
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The best thing about Royal Wedding is Fred Astaire, still spry at 52, but one of the worst things is the choreography by Nick Castle, which...
Friday, September 9, 2022
John Dahl's Joy Ride (2001)
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"Growing up in the West with all those big landscapes, that's a world I know really well. I was drawn in by that, the isolation ...
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal by Michael Mewshaw
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Answering the telephone was the least of what Howard did for Vidal. In addition to handling hundreds of mundane chores, he had monitored ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1977)
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"I suppose I'm more likely to end my days in an old people's home," said Norman, taking up the large economy size of ins...
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