James Stewart as Wyatt Earp, with Arthur Kennedy as Doc Holliday, about to deal with a rude interruption of their direct experience of poker in Cheyenne Autumn, John Ford, 1963. …
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In The Outfit, John Flynn, 1973. Of all the great performers prominent in American cinema in the 1970s, Karen Black embodied the most pleasing paradox: she had a screen presence…
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Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955 The digital guru and blogger Anil Dash has raised hackles in cinephile circles today with a lengthy and rhetorically free-wheeling (to say the…
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In which Dan forgets everyone's name, Simon is back and Kailey is away sick: The Gos stars in Only God Forgives and magic tricks star in Now You See Me,…
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Seconds was not a hit when it was first released in the fall of 1966, but I recall interest in the movie being kind of high in my household at…
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Mae Marsh loses focus near the end of Intolerance (n.b., this screen capture is not from the newly restored Cohen version). If you have not seen D.W. Griffith's Intolerance since…
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