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A Mode of Murder
Filmmaker bathed in film within the film: Jared Martin in Murder a la Mod. Usually when one dips into the earliest works of a well-known director, one can only hope to find mere traces of the...
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Missed Cues
Street Corner (1948) Everyone has seen them, but not everyone has noticed them. And even fewer fully understand the purpose of the circular scratches that appear about every twenty minutes in a film,...
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Secret Messages
It has been called “a virtual social H-bomb,” and it detonated at a press conference in New York on September 12, 1957. Advertising researcher James M. Vicary announced that he had successfully tested...
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Gresham’s Personal Nightmare
The popularity of many vintage films wax and wane, but there are some films that have such a loyal, cultish following that they seem to only gain notoriety with the passage of time. Such a film is...
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Bruce Ricker, 1942-2011
Bruce Ricker, Tony Bennett, and Clint Eastwood, during the making of TONY BENNETT: THE MUSIC NEVER ENDS. On May 13, 2011, documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker died peacefully in Cambridge, Mass., at the...
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Donald Krim, 1945-2011
On Friday, May 20, influential independent film distributor Donald Krim died after a year-long battle with cancer. For 33 years, Don was the president of Kino International Corp, which specialized in...
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The Name of the Rose: Françoise
Françoise Pascal as the mesmerized "Girl" in Jean Rollin's THE IRON ROSE. Friday night’s installment of Underground marks the TCM debut of French filmmaker Jean Rollin, known among horror movie...
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