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  Guillermo Del Toro on Crafting ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Its Scary Truth

  Variety - Tim Gray

  Searchlight’s “Nightmare Alley” takes place mostly in 1939-41, but its sensibility is contemporary. It’s a time-capsule movie: If future generations …

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  The Big Heat movie review & film summary (1953) | Roger Ebert

  rogerebert.com - Roger Ebert

  Reviews | Great Movies The Big Heat Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch Glenn Ford plays a straight-arrow police detective named Bannion in Fritz …

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  ‘Out of the Past’: The Quintessential Film Noir that Launched Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas’ Careers

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  By Sven Mikulec Seventy years since its release, Out of the Past has long...The post ‘Out of the Past’: The Quintessential Film Noir that Launched …

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  My favourite film: Double Indemnity

  The Guardian - Paul Howlett

  Who would have thought a movie about an insurance guy could be so bitter, so suspenseful, so heartbreaking? I love Double Indemnity because it's about a couple who are cheap and greedy, but achieve a kind of tragic heroism; because it has one of the great father-son relationships (although they …

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  What’s so good about Citizen Kane?

  BBC Culture - Fiona Macdonald

  It has topped BBC Culture’s list of the greatest American films – and many other polls before. But what’s so good about Citizen Kane? Nicholas Barber explains. “It’s Terrific!” The slogan on the original Citizen Kane posters may have been on the vague side, but it was certainly accurate. Orson …

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  Sunset Boulevard at 70: we’re all Norma Desmond now

  The Guardian - Tom Joudrey

  Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen On its release in August 1950, Sunset Boulevard punched its own industry in the face. Showbiz royalty, normally enclosed in an echo chamber of self-congratulation, …