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Posted on October 29, 2020December 19, 2020

Eat a Greenlight in the Bowery

“Everyone thinks of changing the world,
But no one things of changing himself”
—Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Podcasts (and literature) for a pandemic.

Posted on November 13, 2019December 8, 2019

A Film Noir Introspective

“Bogart can be tough without a gun. Also, he has a sense of humor that contains that grating undertone of contempt.” —Raymond Chandler 6 There’s probably no other actor who evokes film noir like Humphrey Bogart 19. From The Maltese Falcon to To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep and In a Lonely Place, …

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Posted on November 8, 2019June 9, 2020

A Stanley Kubrick Introspective

Stanley Kubrick, born July 26, 1928 in the Lying-In Hospital at 307 Second Avenue in Manhattan, directed 13 films over his career. He also began preproduction, to one extent or another, on a number of additional films, such as A.I. (passed on to Steven Spielberg) and the meticulously researched, but never produced, Napoleon, a.k.a. The …

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Posted on May 26, 2017

A Quick Chronology of the Gangster Film

The Black Hand (1906) Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) Regeneration (1915) The Penalty (1920) Underworld (1927) The Lights of NY (1928) Little Caesar (1931) Public Enemy (1931) Scarface (1932) I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) Footlight Parade (1933) G-Men (1935) Petrified Forest (1936) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) The Roaring Twenties (1939) …

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