Thursday, December 29, 2022

Casual Malice: Ascots in Crime Films

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Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, 'Beat the Devil' (1953). What’s in an ascot, you ask? Quite a lot, actually. The loosely tied...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

‘Eddie Coyle’ Introduced Us to ‘Boston Noir’

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Robert Mitchum in 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1973). How Boston labor union muscle terrorized Hollywood film crews N o one was qui...
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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Grifter Aims to Separate a Widow from her Fortune

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John Garfield,  Geraldine Fitzgerald and Walter Brennan  in 'Nobody Lives Forever' (1946). By Paul Parcellin As conmen go , Nick Bla...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Hazy Memories of Hollywood

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Brad Pitt and Mike Moh, 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.' Ever since it hit the screen in 2019 there’s been a lot of talk about Quen...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

‘L.A. Confidential’: Wounded Cops Take On the System

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From left, Det. Ed Exly (Guy Pearce), Det.  Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Det. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey). "L.A. Confidential" ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Noir Directors and their Eyepatches

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An eyepatch can make a director look like a badass and that's a good thing in the famously brutal movie biz. Sure, a lot of them are sca...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Driving a Stake through Swinging London’s Heart

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Turner (Mick Jagger), left, keeps watch over Chas (James Fox) in 'Performance' (1970). Just another a drug-induced, decadent, rock ’...