Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings
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Friday, June 2, 2017
Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953)
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Humphrey Bogart called John Huston's Beat the Devil a "mess," which it is, but much of the messiness is due to Bogart's...
Friday, April 21, 2017
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, 1942)
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It's heresy to suggest it, but Alfred Hitchcock needed movie stars. It's no accident that some of his most admired films featured ...
Thursday, December 22, 2016
We Were Strangers (John Huston, 1949)
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Fidel Castro, who died this year, came to power in 1959, ten years after We Were Strangers , which deals with an earlier Cuban revolution,...
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