How do you like that for a use of negative space, huh? That's Mr. Vince Edwards, a watch, and a tie, in Murder By Contract, another great one in the below-cited…
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From the furious climax of Don Siegel's spectacular 1958 The Lineup, one of the crown jewels of Sony's new and very welcome Film Noir Classics I set. The getaway car taking…
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Andy Bull (good British name) talking about English cricket's nomads and imports in The Spin: There is no need to mark a dividing line between those who arrived as children and those…
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Over at The Auteurs', some reflections on one of the biggest DVD events of the year: Eureka!/Masters of Cinema's epic boxset of all of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films. A…
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What tumultuous, nay, can we say even even revolutionary event, could compel the elusive and brilliant Self-Styled Siren to reveal her true, or, rather, her civilian identity? You know it's…
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Parts #1 and #2: Here and here. Farber: "Good coarse romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, a young man and a young woman who would…
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