François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Scott during the interviews that created the book. F.T. Would you say that Psycho is an experimental film? A.H. Possibly. My main satisfaction is that…
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For the Self Styled Siren. Lauren Bacall's first costume. ("First" in this case meaning with respect to the actual diegetic chronology; the picture actually begins after this scene, which is…
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As you might infer from the title of this post, spoilers will follow. So when better than now to entreat you, if you haven't yet seen The Prowler, a remarkable…
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Speaking of Charles Bronson movies, and stuff: In November of last year, Soft Skull Press initiated a series called "Deep Focus," a series of sort-of monographs precisely not in the…
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My post below, inspired by a happenstance viewing of Michael Curtiz's great 1939 Dodge City, inspired some astute commentary both on and off its thread. Some readers were moved to…
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So I'm on the treadmill at the gym (six miles in a little over sixty minutes—thanks for asking), and I've got TCM on, on two monitors at that, because that's…
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