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Aesthetics Affinities Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The dark at the top, and at the bottom, of the stairs, or, there's always "Bigger Than Life"

Nicholas Ray and James Mason,Bigger Than Life, Ray, 1956 Two films of 1956 seem to…

Glenn KennyMarch 8, 2010

Argumentation Auteurs Critics Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Anatomy of a reputation

Near the end of Midnight Movies, the seminal book on cult film he co-wrote with…

Glenn KennyFebruary 23, 2010

Auteurs DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

No woman is an island

...but if you're the only woman on a volcanic island inhabited by Japanese soldiers who…

Glenn KennyFebruary 23, 2010

Auteurs Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

"The Ghost Writer"

Regular readers of this blog have probably figured out that as far as movies are…

Glenn KennyFebruary 18, 2010

Appreciation Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

What makes "Lola" great

Having established that at one point in his career Andrew Sarris did indeed proclaim Max…

Glenn KennyFebruary 17, 2010

Auteurs Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Siodmak studies

In celebration of the tri-state area's snow day yesterday, I cobbled together a classic Universal…

Glenn KennyFebruary 11, 2010

Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

And we are not saved: Rossellini's War Trilogy

In his review at DVD Beaver, Gary Tooze notes that the spine number of the…

Glenn KennyJanuary 25, 2010

Auteurs Great Art Literary interludes Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Stranger than fact: Nabokov's "The Assistant Producer" and Rohmer's "Triple Agent"

It is a notorious, and notoriously unresolved, tale of espionage: a one-time White Russian general,…

Glenn KennyJanuary 14, 2010

Argumentation Auteurs Critics Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

A note on Rohmer and "mumblecore"

Above, Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach, 1983: from left, Simon de La Brosse, Frank Zappa, Don…

Glenn KennyJanuary 12, 2010

Auteurs DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Vroom...

Looking at this screen cap the other day, I thought, "This might make a good…

Glenn KennyJanuary 5, 2010

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