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Looking Back (Into Darkness): Abraham Polonsky’s “Force of Evil”
When sniffing for evidence of "subversion" in Abraham Polonsky's work, surely the House Un-American Activities Committee didn't have to look much further than the opening of his 1948 directorial debut, Force of Evil. The camera tilts down from the New York sky...
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Video Essay: What Is Noir?
With the release of Peter Labuza's "Approaching the End: Imagining Apocalypse In American Film", The Critical Press has put together this video essay describing how the noir responds to classical Hollywood melodrama and continues to pervade today's movies. You...
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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: ‘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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