Peter Breck in Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller, 1963. Now this, really, is my idea of an unimpeachable film. Love this shot, from the nightmare flooding-of-the-hallway scene. The image could conceivably…
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Richard Attenborough and Charles Mingus, All Night Long, Basil Dearden, 1962. I'd been listening a lot to Money Jungle, the wonderful record Duke Ellington made with then new-breeders Mingus and…
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In my heedless youth, with my slovenly wannabe-hippie attitude and all, I was never much of a Jack Webb fan, so I wasn't even aware of his film -30- until…
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The French, they are...well, they are the first to put out some great silent pictures by the extraordinary director Frank Borzage on Blu-ray. And wait, there's more! I have a…
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...oh, no, wait, it's the aforementioned. That is, Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here, 1954. A weird one, not just because of the whole "she's-seventeen-years-old" thing. Obviously. Not major Tashlin, but…
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