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Previously on Streamline

Previously on Streamline

Directed by Nicholas Ray: On Dangerous Ground (’51)

Jun 10, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  Three years after Nicholas Ray made his directorial debut with 1948’s They Live by Night (which I wrote about here), he made On Dangerous Ground (1951), starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino. Written by Gerald […]

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Nicholas Ray’s Directorial Debut: They Live By Night (1949)

Jun 3, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  FilmStruck has just added programming dedicated to director Nicholas Ray, including six films he made throughout his thirty-year career and one documentary feature directed by his widow Susan Ray. One of the films included […]

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The Delightfully Perfect Blithe Spirit (1945)

May 20, 2017 Jill Blake 2

  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 Notorious (1946), William Wyler’s The Best Years of […]

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Don’t Watch M (1931) on Your Anniversary, and Other Unsolicited Romantic Advice

May 13, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  Today, my husband and I are celebrating our anniversary. When we were married, the two of us were young, broke and stupid. We had no earthly idea what we were doing, or what was […]

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In Spite of Myself, I Think I Might Like Stewart Granger

May 6, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  I’ll admit that I’ve always been fairly ambivalent toward actor Stewart Granger (or “the other Jimmy Stewart,” as I like to call him). I’ve never found him, or his films, particularly entertaining. Every once […]

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Beautiful Girls (1996) and Settling in for The Big Fade

Apr 29, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  Can you ever truly go home again? Well, the thing is, and rarely no one tells you this–and if they do, you certainly don’t believe it: when you do finally go back home, even […]

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