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The Big Clock
  • Jan 26, 2021
  • 1 min

The Big Clock

Directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Rita Johnson, this 1948 noir is a combination...
Confessions of a Mask
  • Jan 26, 2021
  • 1 min

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask (仮面の告白, Kamen no Kokuhaku) was first published in 1949, following the 1948 release of his first...
The Big Goodbye
  • Dec 17, 2020
  • 1 min

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,...
Snow Country
  • 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...
The Lady from Shanghai
  • 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...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
  • 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)...
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