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The Tramp: Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932)
To view Boudu Saved From Drowning click here. “From Boudu I have learned that one of the attitudes to take toward society is to loathe it.” - Michel Simon In Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932) Michel...
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All You Need Is the Importance of Love
To view That Most Important Thing: Love click here. Though you wouldn’t know it from the mainstream press, one of the biggest losses to the film community last year was the death of filmmaker Andrzej...
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“Just shut up and watch!”: Remembering Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017)
To view the work of Seijun Suzuki click here. On February 13, we lost Seijun Suzuki. The Japanese director, screenwriter, actor and producer was 93-years-old at the time of his death and a titan in my...
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The Past Is Always With Us: The Naked Kiss (1964)
To view The Naked Kiss click here. Samuel Fuller developed a reputation over time of being the tough guy director of movies like Pickup on South Street (1953), The Steel Helmet (1951) and The Big Red...
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The Delightfully Perfect Blithe Spirit (1945)
To view Blithe Spirit click here. There are countless great movies, but so few are truly perfect. Some of the movies that I consider worthy of the “perfect” designation include Alfred Hitchcock’s...
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Counter-Revolutionaries: Knight Without Armour (1937)
To view Knight Without Armour click here. The year 1937 witnessed a milestone for author James Hilton, as two of his books got the big screen treatment on both sides of the Atlantic. One, Lost...
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Billy Bob Thornton and Southern Gothic for the Big Screen
To view Sling Blade click here. Articles about Billy Bob Thornton’s films, scripts or starring roles inevitably bring up some combination of his eccentric behavior, Southern background and strange...
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Desire: A Day in the Country (1936)
To view A Day in the Country click here. One of Jean Renoir’s most beloved films is one he wasn’t interested in finishing. While making A Day in the Country, Renoir was in pre-production on both The...
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Singing the Last Song: Dancer in the Dark (2000)
To view Dancer in the Dark click here. Long before he was famously excoriated by the press for his remarks at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, director and reliable provocateur Lars von Trier was...
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Mad Men & Women: Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
To view Good Neighbor Sam click here. In case you haven’t noticed, FilmStruck is spotlighting the lovely Romy Schneider with their Icons: Romy Schneider theme that brings together 17 of her films made...
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Quirks, Quips and Q Planes (1939)
To view Q Planes click here. Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier had already developed quite the reputation among actors in the 1930s as powerhouses of the London stage. Both had worked together in...
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Cagney Fills the Screen in Shake Hands with the Devil (’59)
To view Shake Hands with the Devil click here. During the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Peter Bogdanovich conducted a series of interviews with one of his idols: the larger-than-life, enigmatic...
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The Man Who Saw the Angel
To view films within the FilmStruck theme “The Masters: Andrei Tarkovsky” click here. The May 8th headline from the Film Society Lincoln Center Newsletter read “Stalker Makes Box Office History”. It...
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The Devil Made Me Do It
To view The Devil and Daniel Webster click here. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) exists outside the conventions and formulas of typical Hollywood genres, vexing those critics and writers who like...
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For Richer, For Poorer: The Lower Depths (1936)
To view The Lower Depths click here. “That man who makes films where people spit on the ground.” – Jacques Schwob d’Héricourt (producer) on Jean Renoir When the funding ran out on A Day in the Country...
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Foreign Correspondent (1940) Keeps the Lights Burning
To view Foreign Correspondent click here. Here we have it: that “other movie” Alfred Hitchcock made in 1940 along with his much-loved Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Rebecca. Though it rarely...
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Fear of Flowers: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
To view Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees click here. “Without people, a forest of cherries in full bloom is not pretty, just something to be afraid of.” - Ango Sakaguchi Although typically described...
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Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun & Creole Cooking (1990)
To view Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taster of Cajun and Creole Cooking click here. If you’ve never heard me say it before, let me say it here again: Les Blank is my favorite documentarian. I’ve written about him...
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Nicholas Ray’s Directorial Debut: They Live By Night (1949)
To view They Live By Night click here. FilmStruck has just added programming dedicated to director Nicholas Ray, including six films he made throughout his thirty-year career and one documentary...
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Sequel or Stand Alone? Stolen Kisses (1968)
To view Stolen Kisses click here. Sequels and continuing series installments have no obligation to adhere to the original tone of the work from which they derive. The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
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