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Out of the Past: The Illustrated Man
[Originally published in slightly different form in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] Before anything happens in The Illustrated Man, a voice (Claire Bloom’s) warns us that those who try to see...
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‘Run of the Arrow’: Birth Pangs of the United States
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a...
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Blu-ray: ‘The Pawnbroker’
The first few minutes of The Pawnbroker, the 1964 screen version of Edward Lewis Wallant’s novel about a concentration camp survivor in New York City, takes us from an idealized memory of a family...
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Review: Hennessy
[Originally published in Movietone News 43, September 1975] Hennessy … the name offers to hang over this movie the way “Juggernaut” and “Drabble” spiritually pervaded theirs (Drabble having been the...
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Review: Lucky Luciano
[Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] Francesco Rosi’s attempt to adapt the method of The Mattei Affair to the career of Charles “Lucky” Luciano fails almost completely. What made...
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Blu-ray: A pair of ‘Ringo’s and ‘A Fistful of Dynamite’
A Pistol for Ringo/The Return of Ringo: Two Films by Dessario Tessari (Arrow, Blu-ray) A Fistful of Dynamite (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray) Duccio Tessari is not one of the directors known for spaghetti...
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