Jan 26, 20211 minThe Big ClockDirected by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, and Rita Johnson, this 1948 noir is a combination...
Jan 26, 20211 minConfessions of a MaskYukio 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...
Dec 17, 20201 minThe Big GoodbyeA behind-the-scenes look at the lives and times that brought us the 70s film noir classic Chinatown. Well-researched and compelling,...
Dec 8, 20202 minSnow 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, 20201 minThe 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, 20202 minKleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the WorldA tough read filled with schemes and twists, a torrent of money laundering, murder ordered from the top, and (for me)...