Repertory
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Obsession (Dir. Brian DePalma, 1976): Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been deconstructed from just about every angle of filmic and literary criticism over the years, and through it all it’s remained an…
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Where Danger Lives (1950, Dir. John Farrow): Noir can be hit-and-miss, but even minor noir films such as Where Danger Lives have their pleasures — and there’s nothing minor about…
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Samuel Fuller was of his time and beyond it, and his early B-grade Korean War drama "The Steel Helmet" amply illustrates that fact.
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The Long Riders (1980, Dir. Walter Hill): It reads like a gimmick — get four sets of acting brothers (the Carradines, the Keaches, the Quaids and the Guests) and have them…
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Better to Travel: Option 3 (Dir. Richard Wong, 2008): “So have you thought about what I said?” — Jessica, Option 3 I seem to be one of the not-so-proud few…
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I’m not sure who said or wrote it, but someone once said that if novels are love affairs, then short stories are kisses in the rain. I think of that…
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Dirty Ho (1979, Dir. Lau Kar-Leung) “You haven’t lived until you’ve fought Dirty Ho … and then you’re dead!” — Original tagline for Dirty Ho [Originally reviewed for the 2006 Asian…
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Foreign Correspondent (1940, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) “All that noise you hear isn’t static—it’s death coming to London. Yes, you can hear the bombs falling on the streets and on the…
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Lost Highway (1997, Dir. David Lynch): “It’s a film made with a certain breezy contempt for audiences. I’ve seen it twice, hoping to make sense of it. There is no…