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DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Where there's smoke...

The above exquisite image does not, as you might expect, derive from a classic noir,…

Glenn KennyFebruary 3, 2009

DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Go "Big"

John Drew Barrymore, here acting under the name John Barrymore, Jr., seeks salvation in The…

Glenn KennyJanuary 27, 2009

DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Three Compositions By Michael Powell, Hannes Staudinger, and Helen Mirren

Took me forever to get a copy of the Sony "The Films Of Michael Powell"…

Glenn KennyJanuary 26, 2009

DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

My favorite atheist

Sylvia Pinal as Satan as Jesus in Simon of the Desert, Bunuel, 1965"Thank God I'm…

Glenn KennyJanuary 26, 2009

DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Two "Lilioms"

Rose Hobart (yes, that one) regards good-for-nothing Charles Farrell in Borzage's Liliom, 1930. One of the…

Glenn KennyJanuary 23, 2009

DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Sorry to interrupt...

...but the Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report is up, at The Auteurs'. This week,…

Glenn KennyJanuary 20, 2009

DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Three Compositions By Douglas Sirk and Russell Metty

From Magnificent Obsession, 1954. Out today in a fantastic set from Criterion, which Dave Kehr…

Glenn KennyJanuary 20, 2009

DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Candy from "Strangers"

Paul Schrader's 1990 The Comfort of Strangers is, as it happens, pretty spare on very…

Glenn KennyJanuary 13, 2009

DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Sweet Dorothy Malone

Here she is, glugging away in Sirk's 1958 The Tarnished Angels. Maybe she's having a…

Glenn KennyJanuary 6, 2009

DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The Best DVDs of 2008

Whazzzzup?Say what you will about how "meh" the year in actual movies was, 2008 kicked…

Glenn KennyJanuary 5, 2009

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Where there's smoke...

Go "Big"

Three Compositions By Michael Powell, Hannes Staudinger, and Helen Mirren

My favorite atheist

Two "Lilioms"

Sorry to interrupt...

Three Compositions By Douglas Sirk and Russell Metty

Candy from "Strangers"

Sweet Dorothy Malone

The Best DVDs of 2008

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