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Great film directors

Lists of great films are easy to compile if you don’t look too hard at what you mean by ‘great’. I looked around and found lots of lists. They all … Continue reading

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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012 · Leave a comment

To Be Or Not To Be: The Big Sleep

from To Have and Have Not Last night I viewed Howard Hawks’ version of The Big Sleep (1946). It was the fifth or sixth time I’d watched it, and the … Continue reading

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Saturday, 4 December, 2010 · 3 Comments

Favourite American Cinema

This list combines a number of accepted cinema classics with quite a few films of the 30s and 40s I feel are under-appreciated: this was, it is generally admitted, the … Continue reading

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Friday, 24 July, 2009 · Leave a comment
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