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Scarlet Street (1945) — The Darkest of Film Noir Cons
With Scarlet Street (1945), Fritz Lang delivered one of the darkest films in the film noir genre. Banned in 1946 in New York, Milwaukee, and …
Beware of Grown Men Sleeping in Cribs
The Baby is chilling Ted Post’s The Baby came at a time when children in movies were possessed by devils, dabbled in drugs, had multiple personalities, …
Carnival of Souls
Ever been haunted by a dream? Surviving a freak accident, a musician sits at a massive pipe organ, playing thick tones that hover between harmony …
Woyzeck: Germany’s Death of a Salesman
Herzog’s 1979 masterpiece still disturbs In a barren courtyard seemingly untouched by human life, a soldier appears. He’s frantic, running with his rifle. All around …
Ms. 45
A forgotten gem The characters in Abel Ferrara’s early movies kill with the frequency of teens that have just discovered a new high. They don’t …
Amira & Sam
There is something tantalizing about falling in love with someone from another country, someone whose mind has yet to be saturated by our American bullshit. …
Tale of the Dog
How important was The Family Dog in the general scheme of the 1960s rock revolution? Fairly important, it seems. There’s no footage of the legendary …
THE WOMAN WHO WASN’T THERE
Here’s our last glimpse of Tania Head, angry, tired of being harassed, staring down a documentary filmmaker’s camera with a look in her eye that …
MAN IN THE ATTIC
Jack Palance had appeared in only a half dozen films at the time of Man in the Attic (1953). Panoramic Productions, a new independent company …
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