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Niagara (1955) 26 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
Director: Henry Hathaway By Marilyn Ferdinand In the fifth installment of Noir City Chicago, the programmers decided to take a risk: they devoted an entire day to Technicolor noir. For most people, ...
The Grandmaster (Yi dai zong shi, 2013) 19 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Director/Coscreenwriter: Wong Kar-Wai By Roderick Heath (Here there be spoilers. This essay is on the Chinese version, not the international cut.) Wong Kar-Wai’s return to cinema screens after a le...
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 15 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Director: Alfred Hitchcock By Marilyn Ferdinand The touring show The Hitchcock 9—the nine surviving features from Alfred Hitchcock’s catalog of silent films restored by the British Film Institute—fi...
Pacific Rim (2013) 12 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
Director/Coscreenwriter: Guillermo Del Toro By Roderick Heath Here there be spoilers One of the great filmmakers working in modern genre cinema, Guillermo Del Toro has worked his way up to becoming...
Swing High, Swing Low (1937) 10 Aug 2013 | 01:35 am
Director: Mitchell Leisen By Marilyn Ferdinand Swing High, Swing Low has long been considered director Mitchell Leisen’s best film, but one whose reputation is based more on received opinion than ac...
Passion (2012) 7 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
Director/Coscreenwriter: Brian De Palma By Roderick Heath Here there be spoilers Crime d’Amour (2010), starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott-Thomas, was the last film of reputable French dire...
All Night Long (1962) 3 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
Director: Basil Dearden By Marilyn Ferdinand British director Basil Dearden hasn’t got nearly the reputation he deserves. As one of the creatives at Ealing Studios during the 1940s and 50s, his film...
Reds (1981) 28 Jul 2013 | 10:11 pm
Director/Coscreenwriter: Warren Beatty By Roderick Heath “No, I haven’t seen Commie Dearest,” filmmaker Paul Morrissey quipped when asked if he had seen Warren Beatty’s Reds. “The cult of the person...
The Sunshine Boys (1975) 19 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
Director: Herbert Ross By Marilyn Ferdinand Is comedy dead as an American film genre? Some people might think I’m being facetious, but for me, 2000’s Zoolander was my high watermark for modern comed...
Blancanieves (2012) 13 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm
Director/Screenwriter: Pablo Berger By Roderick Heath Silent cinema seems to be making a comeback, not to the extent that it’s likely to take over the multiplexes, of course, but as a niche of playf...
