Featuring Percy Kilbride and Dana Andrews. From Fallen Angel, Otto Preminger, 1945, shot by Joseph La Shelle. For The Self-Styled Siren, who wrote quite movingly about Darnell here.
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An English Catholic painter came to paint the Pope's portrait. Hadrian knew him for a vulgar and officious liar: detested him; and, at the first application, had refused to sit…
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Just kidding. But then again, mark my words: when the new 35mm print of Jacques Rivette's 1974 Celine and Julie Go Boating hits Film Forum beginning May 4, some "relevance"…
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Honest to God, at no point during Think Like A Man did this man think "How could hell be any worse?" or any such thing. That's kind of the surprise…
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With James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, and Geneviève Page. Daves directed, Lawton shot, Kuter was the art director.
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An ace actor and a veritable type who came along in an era of severe character-actor non-appreciation, alas. Like Robert Silverman in early David Cronenberg, Finley was a totemic figure…
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