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Colin Fleming

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The American Interest

The startlingly germane The Ox-Bow Incident upon its 75th anniversary

Slate

How Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey triumphs over the presumption of shortened attention spans

JazzTimes - A new documentary on the Blue Note label

A new documentary on the Blue Note label

The American Interest

The Santa Fe shootings, the automatic weapon that is the abyss within, and the 1950 film Gun Crazy

The American Interest

Otis Redding and a filmed performance that changed American music

The Daily Beast

The weirdest Easter special in television history

The Daily Beast

Renee Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and the greatest acting performance in movie history

Salon

Is it okay to like Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia?

Salon

The scariest animated Christmas film you've never seen

Salon

Why Orson Welles's Othello and its self-hating Iago are more relevant than ever

Salon

How Alfred Hitchcock handled working for "the man" in David O. Selznick with Rebecca (1940)

Salon

The Prisoner, 50 years later, a prescient show for our paranoid android age

Vice

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the best movie about growing up

The American Interest

Elvis as thespian

The Weekly Standard

The first mature Alfred Hitchcock film, 1927's The Lodger

Salon

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, the best film of the 1970s

The American Interest

Robert Mitchum's 100th birthday and the apotheosis of film noir

The Daily Beast

A porn king, Dylan, and a DIY cinematic masterpiece

The Daily Beast

Withnail and I, a film to do your soul good

The American Interest

Probing the filmography of Orson Welles beyond Citizen Kane

Sports Illustrated

Early cinematic hockey efforts

The Daily Beast

Are the Marx Brothers still funny?

The Barnes and Noble Review

The classics of Halloween cinema

The Smart Set

A joyous, overlooked British film about the joys of whisky

Vice

The 1936 vampire classic that is really about lesbians

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