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Looking Back: “So Dark the Night”
Like Edgar G. Ulmer or Roger Corman, Joseph H. Lewis is the kind of director devoted cinephiles like to discover. Routinely saddled with shoestring budgets and week-long schedules, these Poverty Row auteurs dealt with their slapdash screenplays and inept casts...
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Looking Back: ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’
Looking back at my history with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer started about as well as it did for everyone in the United States, with a “huh”? I can remember seeing the little screen number placard at the theater and being intrigued by the title, but like m...
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Looking Back: ‘Adventureland’
High school graduate James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) is going to Europe in the summer and Columbia University after that. However, his parents—who are in dire straits financially—advise him to take up a summer job. James ends up a lowly games operator at a sha...
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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: ‘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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