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Out of the Past features Robert Mitchum, at his all-time best, playing a proto-loser, whose downward trajectory departs from more traditional noirs, such as The Big Sleep, and previews the 70s neo-noirs, such as Chinatown.
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After a preview screening of his newest film Husbands in 1969, John Cassavetes should have been elated: everyone loved the film. But Cassavetes felt that the film was too entertaining in its depiction of the three main characters. So Cassavetes dismantled the entire film in the editing room to create the film he released in 1970. But now we can see it, or at least have a better idea of this first version than we used to. Through my archival research, I located a shooting script of the first third of the film that I argue allows us access to at least part of the 1969 edit of the film.
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David Bowie's never been a predictable artist. Here we look at his first major film role in The Man Who Fell to Earth and its formative relationship to his album Low.
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"What's so great about being human?"
“For once, almost was good enough” and “so much closer than love”: timeless messages by two essential records of the early-20th century
Inelegantly wasted: an unforgettable dive into downer rock.
"Drink scotch whiskey all night long / And die behind the wheel"