The Big Goodbye
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives and times that brought us the 70s film noir classic Chinatown. Well-researched and compelling,...
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- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
Snow Country
“The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.” The famous first line of Yasunari Kawabata’s short novel Snow Country...
- Dec 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Lady from Shanghai
“Some people can smell danger. Not me.” Says Irish-born boatswain Michael O'Hara (Welles) to Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth), in the dark...
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
A tough read filled with schemes and twists, a torrent of money laundering, murder ordered from the top, and (for me)...
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Chinatown
"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.” I've watched this two or three times before but not for ten years at least. Roman Polanski's Chinatown...
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms (1929) evokes so much in spite of Hemingway's pared-down prose and the oftentimes banal subject matter Henry, its...