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A farmers daughter goes to the big city to be a nurse and ends up a senator.
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Wherever you go, you have to live with yourself.
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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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A widow buys a haunted house by the sea.
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Walt's Daddy Issues may not have been fully responsible for his testimony before HUAC, but goodness they didn't help.
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A little kindness never goes amiss, especially at the holidays.
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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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Sometimes rage is the only winner.