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The Film Canon: Hitchcock the Paranoiac Meets Highsmith the Misanthrope in Strangers on a Train (1951)
Nathanael Hood February 20, 2019

When Patricia Highsmith left the theater after seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of her debut novel Strangers on a Train, several thoughts flew through her mind, the only reportedly positive one be…

Nathanael Hood February 20, 2019
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The Film Canon
Film Canon: Moi, Un Noir (1958)
Nathanael Hood January 30, 2019

“These young people are torn between tradition and mechanization, between Islam and alcohol. They are faithful to their beliefs, but idolize modern stars of boxing and cinema.” Feeling stifled by his …

Nathanael Hood January 30, 2019
The Film Canon
The Film Canon: Lucía (1968)
Nathanael Hood October 1, 2018

Alongside Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba (1964), Humberto Solás’ Lucía (1968) was one of the formative texts of the new Cuban cinema established in the wake of Fidel Castro’s 1959 Cuban Revolution. Whe…

Nathanael Hood October 1, 2018
The Film Canon
80 Years Later, Frank Capra’s naively idealistic You Can’t Take It With You seems more timely than ever
Nathanael Hood September 3, 2018

If Frank Capra’s cherubically bright and sunny screwball comedy You Can’t Take it With You seems hopelessly naive today a full eighty years after its debut, consider that a year to the day after its N…

Nathanael Hood September 3, 2018
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The Film Canon: Matinee (1993)
Gary Shannon August 2, 2018

By 1960 close to 90% of American households owned a television set. This little bit of trivia plays a significant role in Joe Dante’s period comedy, set in Key West, Florida in October of 1962 when ch…

Gary Shannon August 2, 2018
The Film Canon
The Film Canon: The Great Silence (1968)
Gary Shannon July 13, 2018

At first glance there is little to distinguish between Jean-Louis Trintignant’s spaghetti western protagonist ‘Silence’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man with No Name’. But over the course of Sergio Corbucci’…

Gary Shannon July 13, 2018
The Film Canon
Revisiting “The Glory Days”: A Look Back at The Incredibles
Matthew Goudreau June 13, 2018

For nearly a decade, the film output of Pixar was primarily conceived from the minds of animators already working at the studio like John Lasseter (Toy Story), Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), and Pete …

Matthew Goudreau June 13, 2018

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