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Nicholas Ray Characters Are All ON DANGEROUS GROUND

Jul 21, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

Nicholas Ray is not an easy director. Almost all of his work requires the viewer to be introspective while simultaneously digging deep beneath superficial layers to discover irony, paranoia and self-loathing. Whether it’s the misunderstood […]

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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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Film Noir Faux Pas: Truffaut’s MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

Jun 29, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

François Truffaut was never properly suited to film noir. His enthusiasms were too childish and his outlook too optimistic to ever be properly gloomy or cynical for that most nihilistic of genres. His male characters […]

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Blu-ray Review: Carl Franklin’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)

Feb 16, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

“It was summer, 1948, and I needed money.” Competent, and at times compelling, Carl Franklin’s pedestrian neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress boasts a syzygy of talent that keeps it going. The first of these components is […]

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B-Roll: Jean Renoir’s NIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS (1932)

Dec 12, 2015 Nathanael Hood 0

Darkness falls at the crossroads and near all is silent. Milky fog opaques the inky blackness pierced by an occasional light. In a mechanics shop a worker sniffs a pinch of cocaine hidden in a […]

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B-Roll: George Cukor’s A WOMAN’S FACE (1941)

Jun 23, 2015 Nathanael Hood 1

B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, writer Nathanael Hood looks at George Cukor’s 1941 film noir A Woman’s Face. […]

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