This, recently released on DVD, really is a must-see, a terrific piece of cinematic storytelling and a key early Hollywood work from the great Sirk. Dave Kehr gave it a…
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Previous installments here, here, and here.Farber: "Howard Hawks's science-fiction quickie directed by Christian Nyby; fast, crisp and cheap, without any progressive-minded gospel-reading about neighborliness in the atomic age; good airplane take-offs…
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From the furious climax of Don Siegel's spectacular 1958 The Lineup, one of the crown jewels of Sony's new and very welcome Film Noir Classics I set. The getaway car taking…
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Over at The Auteurs', some reflections on one of the biggest DVD events of the year: Eureka!/Masters of Cinema's epic boxset of all of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films. A…
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For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon, expanded into a full-length Korean battle movie without benefit of the usual newsreel clips. Funny,…
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Even in this online age, and its forgiveness of self-indulgence being such as it is, I feel a little sheepish talking about Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest, whose New York…
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