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All posts by Andreas Stoehr
Looking Back: ‘It’s a Gift’
Family life is by its essence a form of captivity. It means being chained to a unit of people, and the fact that this bondage is abstract makes it that much harder to escape. Family life is a source of frustration, makes one pace like a trapped animal, and bes...
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Looking Back: ‘The Swimmer’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) is set in a cozy Connecticut suburb of commuters and mid-afternoon martinis and big houses with swimming pools—so many po...
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Looking Back: ‘The Outlaw and His Wife’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
I first learned about Victor Sjöström's The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) from Kristin Thompson's list of the 10 best films of 1918. "One of the cinema’s g...
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Looking Back: ‘The Phenix City Story’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
I don't usually think of myself as an angry person. When life is unfair, my reaction tends to be one of anxiety, or maybe sadness. Rarely do I lash out....
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Looking Back: ‘Wanda’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
Real life is ugly. Real life is low-paying jobs, unsatisfying relationships, moldy wallpaper. In its rawest form, it doesn’t look pretty onscreen, nor d...
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Looking Back: ‘The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
Countless wars have been fought over the past 90 years. Cities have been demolished and rebuilt. Nations, including the Soviet Union, have crumbled. Yet...
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Looking Back: ‘Seconds’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
What if you could go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow morning with a new life and the face of Rock Hudson? That's the tantalizing hypothetical ques...
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Looking Back: ‘Hypocrites’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
If you’ve seen any movies by D.W. Griffith or Edwin S. Porter, you’ll know roughly what to expect from Lois Weber’s Hypocrites (1915). It’s shot with a ...
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Looking Back: ‘The Sniper’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
"TO THE POLICE—STOP ME—FIND ME AND STOP ME—I'M GOING TO DO IT AGAIN."
You can almost feel the desperation bleeding out of those words, scrawled in ch...
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Looking Back: ‘The Scarlet Empress’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
The first thing I notice about The Scarlet Empress (1934) is Marlene Dietrich's cheekbones. They're essential to the film, as essential as its chiaroscu...
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