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Great Art Just images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Image of the day, 2/8/10

The horrific yet supremely satisfying finale to Chuck Jones' brutally brilliant 1951 tale of animal…

Glenn KennyFebruary 8, 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

Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Hello, Tony. Hello, kitty. Hello, Stan. Hello, Carl Th. Hello, Barbet. Hello, Lou, Edie, and John. Hello, Amy.

Actually, the art-celeb-spotting aspect of Jonas Mekas' Walden is maybe the least of its many…

Glenn KennyDecember 10, 2009

Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

"The heavenly electricity:" Douglas Sirk's "Summer Storm" (1944)

This, recently released on DVD, really is a must-see, a terrific piece of cinematic storytelling…

Glenn KennyNovember 20, 2009

Auteurs Critics DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #4: 'The Thing From Another World," directed (it is said) by Christian Nyby

Previous installments here, here, and here.Farber: "Howard Hawks's science-fiction quickie directed by Christian Nyby; fast, crisp…

Glenn KennyNovember 8, 2009

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

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

Great Art

Image of the day, 2/8/10

And we are not saved: Rossellini's War Trilogy

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

Hello, Tony. Hello, kitty. Hello, Stan. Hello, Carl Th. Hello, Barbet. Hello, Lou, Edie, and John. Hello, Amy.

"The heavenly electricity:" Douglas Sirk's "Summer Storm" (1944)

Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #4: 'The Thing From Another World," directed (it is said) by Christian Nyby

Images of the day, 11/4/09

The Mabuse hour...

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

Obviously they've mistaken me for a much shorter man

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