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Chapped lips have met their match: Smith’s Rosebud Salve
Smith's Rosebud Salve keeps dryness at bay. In the 1941 movie “Citizen Kane,” Chas K. utters the word rosebud, providing what seems to be a clue to the mysteries of his personality and the essence of...
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Noir delights abound at TCM Classic Film Festival
"An American in Paris" opened the festival. Four days of devouring big-screen classics has left me deliciously sated! At least until my next film fest. About 25,000 people attended this year’s sold-out...
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Cinematheque honors Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann
You can always count on the American Cinematheque to give noiristas some love. The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood is running Suspense Account: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring his Technicolor...
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The Noir File: Lusty? Low-budget? We’re in!
By Michael Wilmington A noir-lover’s guide to classic film noirs (and neo-noirs) on cable TV. Just Turner Classic Movies (TCM) so far, but we’ll add more stations as more schedules come in. The times...
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Film noir treats this weekend at the American Cinematheque
Authors Christopher Nickens and George Zeno will sign their book “Marilyn in Fashion,” today at the Egyptian Theatre, before a screening of 1952’s “Don’t Bother to Knock” starring Marilyn Monroe and...
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Happy Halloween, everyone!
Here’s a shot of one of my fave costumes – a Hitch/Tippi homage. Speaking of Hitchcock, this topic came up last night at a Writers Bloc Presents discussion with film critic and historian David Thomson....
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In ‘Ruthless,’ director Edgar G. Ulmer moves (temporarily) from Poverty Row...
Ruthless/1948/ Producing Artists/105 min. “Ruthless” was recently released on Blu-ray by Olive Films. By Michael Wilmington The Czech-born émigré film director Edgar G. Ulmer, as noir as they come, was...
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The Film Noir File: Crawford at her craziest in ‘Possessed’
By Film Noir Blonde and Mike Wilmington The Film Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). All movies below are from the schedule of TCM,...
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