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Riefenstahl, 2024 - ★★★★
“Nazis!
6 hrs ago • 
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Wild Strawberries, 1957 - ★★★★★
I first saw this film at 19, in Professor Jennings’s film class on a scratchy 16mm print from his personal collection.
21 hrs ago • 
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A Ship to India, 1947 - ★★★½
Good but not great early Bergman.
Nov 14 • 
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Crisis, 1946 - ★★★½
Swedish Noir!
Nov 11 • 
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Not Guilty, 1947 - ★★★½
Oh the evil that a resentful, under-appreciated, overeducated, fueled with superstition man can do.
Nov 11 • 
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Framed, 1947 - ★★★½
Why do dames always try to get the drop on Glenn Ford?
Nov 11 • 
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Edgar Allan Poe, Proto-Noir Master: Rescored at the Morgan
The Curiosity Cabinet's live scores for 1928 experimental films reveal the shadows that would define cinema for decades
Nov 11 • 
Yelena Fradlis
 and 
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Paths of Glory, 1957 - ★★★★½
In the dark years to come, when the same vainglorious men who promised us a golden age of “connection” begin to demand our sons’ and daughters…
Nov 11 • 
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Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955 - ★★★★★
Would Bergman think of this as a “hangout movie”?
Nov 10 • 
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Intimidation, 1960 - ★★★★½
Post-war Japan is such an incredible miasma of emasculation, discomfort and embrace of modernism and lost tradition.
Nov 8 • 
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Popeye, 1980 - ★★★★
Robert Altman’s children’s musical is bonkers and offbeat and wonderful.
Nov 7 • 
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NoirVember Begins: Detour and the Jazz of Despair
Our Largest Crowd Yet Launches a Month in the Shadows
Nov 3 • 
Doug Hesney
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Yelena Fradlis
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