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The Film Canon: Sweet Smell of Success
Paul Gilbert October 23, 2015

J.J. Hunsecker’s eyes watch New York night life like God. In fact, J.J is God for anyone who wants to make it big in show business. A name in his column can make a fledgling comedian into a headliner …

Paul Gilbert October 23, 2015
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The Film Canon: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Paul Gilbert October 6, 2015

AND WE’RE BACK! “Who will be his next victim you?” warns the lobby poster for Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker (1953). A killer is hitchhiking his way across the Southwest and leaving a trail of bod…

Paul Gilbert October 6, 2015
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Out of the Past: ‘Mona Lisa’ (1986)
Paul Gilbert July 7, 2015

George is the person that tries to make the right decisions, but always make the wrong ones. George has just been released from prison and is looking for a job and trying to reconnect with his daughte…

Paul Gilbert July 7, 2015
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Out of the Past: ‘Odd Man Out’ (1947)
Paul Gilbert June 18, 2015

Critics often refer to Odd Man Out as a political film, but its director Carol Reed believed his film was apolitical. I agree with the latter. Odd Man Out centers on the conflict in Belfast as the IRA…

Paul Gilbert June 18, 2015
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Out of the Past: “Blast of Silence” (1961)
Paul Gilbert June 2, 2015

Allen Baron, a former cartoonist, was hailed as the “new Orson Welles” after the release of his low budget urban noir Blast of Silence. Baron’s existential noir ran as a second feature and, despite gl…

Paul Gilbert June 2, 2015
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Out of the Past: “Blood Simple” (1984)
Paul Gilbert May 26, 2015

Blood Simple is about murder and miscalculations. The Cohen Brother’s 1984 film debut is an emotionally brutal and wonderfully twisted noir. If it wasn’t for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre like nauseatin…

Paul Gilbert May 26, 2015
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Out of the Past: “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950)
Paul Gilbert May 19, 2015

The Asphalt Jungle is filled with clichés: a criminal with a moral code, a double crossing millionaire with a blonde bombshell mistress, a crooked cop, and a heist that goes wrong. In the hand’s of an…

Paul Gilbert May 19, 2015

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