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Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Images of the day, 11/4/09

From the furious climax of Don Siegel's spectacular 1958 The Lineup, one of the crown jewels…

Glenn KennyNovember 4, 2009

Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The Mabuse hour...

Over at The Auteurs', some reflections on one of the biggest DVD events of the…

Glenn KennyNovember 3, 2009

Awards Critics DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #3: 'His Kind of Woman," directed (sort of) by John Farrow

Parts #1 and #2: Here and here. Farber: "Good coarse romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans…

Glenn KennyNovember 1, 2009

DVD Misc. inanity Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Capital, it fails us now

A DVD release of Goffredo Alessandrini's 1942 We the Living, from Ayn Rand's novel, just…

Glenn KennyOctober 31, 2009

Auteurs DVD Hilarity Just images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Image of the day, 10/29/09 (Special "Well, THAT isn't very nice" Edition)

A ballsy Georges Marchal gives his greetings to the local authorities in Death in the…

Glenn KennyOctober 29, 2009

Awesomeness DVD Misc. inanity Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Michael York, mack daddy; or, why I still love the '70s...

So I was out and about earlier today, hanging at my favorite street-date-violating DVD emporium,…

Glenn KennyOctober 26, 2009

Auteurs Critics DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #2: "Fixed Bayonets!," directed by Samuel Fuller

For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon,…

Glenn KennyOctober 25, 2009

Affinities Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Obviously they've mistaken me for a much shorter man

Even in this online age, and its forgiveness of self-indulgence being such as it is,…

Glenn KennyOctober 21, 2009

Auteurs DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The state

A typically haunted image from what may be Wim Wenders' most haunted film, the eerie…

Glenn KennyOctober 20, 2009

Critics DVD Movie assessment Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #1: "Little Big Horn," directed by Charles Marquis Warren

Nobody refers to 1951 as an annus mirabilis for Hollywood film, world cinema, or anything…

Glenn KennyOctober 18, 2009

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