What Makes a Movie Bad?
(This essay was originally posted on my former blog one year ago.) The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps, circa 2000 My band friends will...
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awolverton77
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: Film Noir from the Classic Era (1940-1959)
After four Noirvembers, four Noir City DC, and three Noir City San Francisco festivals, and countless movies and books about them, I...
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awolverton77
- Dec 27, 2018
- 3 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 2000s
As I mentioned in my last post, the 1990s and 2000s tend to get the short shrift in my movie-watching schedules, so this list will be...
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awolverton77
- Dec 24, 2018
- 4 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 1990s
The 1990s remain my least-explored decade, partly due to so many life issues happening at the time (graduate school, getting married,...
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awolverton77
- Dec 21, 2018
- 3 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 1980s
Even though I started college in 1980 and finished in 1985 (and took at least one course every summer), I still managed to watch a ton of...
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awolverton77
- Dec 20, 2018
- 6 min
Do We Belong Here? Jeremy Saulnier's Hold the Dark (2018)
Hold the Dark (2018) Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Written by Macon Blair Produced by Russell Ackerman, Eva Maria Daniels, Neil Kopp, Anish...
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awolverton77
- Dec 19, 2018
- 3 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 1970s
After the 1940s, the 1970s is my favorite decade for movies, although you probably wouldn’t know it from this list, one of the shortest...
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awolverton77
- Dec 17, 2018
- 10 min
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Written and directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Produced by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Megan Ellison, Sue...
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awolverton77
- Dec 15, 2018
- 3 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 1960s
I was somewhat surprised to find so many movies from the 1960s on my Best Discoveries of the Year list, a total of 15, matched only by my...
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awolverton77
- Dec 13, 2018
- 4 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 1950s
If you removed all the Westerns from the 1950s films I saw in 2018, I’d have a much smaller list. The appearance of so many Westerns is...
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awolverton77
- Dec 10, 2018
- 2 min
The Best Discoveries of 2018: The 1920s and 1930s
Early cinema has always been a mostly unexplored land mass for me, but I'm working on it. Thanks to a couple of friends who've made some...
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awolverton77
- Nov 30, 2018
- 3 min
Noirvember 2018 Wrap-Up
Noirvember 2018 ends today and while it was a good one, it was also bittersweet. My focus for this year’s event was both British noir...
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awolverton77
- Nov 30, 2018
- 2 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 30: The Lady Gambles (1949)
The Lady Gambles (1949) Directed by Michael Gordon Produced by Michael Kraike Written by Halstead Welles Screenplay by Roy Huggins Story...
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awolverton77
- Nov 29, 2018
- 2 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 29: The House Across the Lake (1954)
House Across the Lake (aka Heat Wave) (1954) Directed by Ken Hughes Produced by Anthony Hinds Written by Ken Hughes Cinematography by...
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awolverton77
- Nov 28, 2018
- 2 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 28: The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
The Counterfeit Plan (1957) Directed by Montgomery Tully Produced by Alec C. Snowden, Richard Gordon Written by James Eastwood...
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awolverton77
- Nov 27, 2018
- 2 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 27: The Chase (1946)
The Chase (1946) Directed by Arthur Ripley Produced by Seymour Nebenzal Screenplay by Philip Yordan Based on the novel The Black Path of...
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awolverton77
- Nov 26, 2018
- 2 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 26: Offbeat (1961)
Offbeat (aka The Devil Inside in the U.S.) (1961) Directed by Cliff Owen Produced by E.M. Smedley-Aston Written by Peter Barnes...
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awolverton77
- Nov 25, 2018
- 3 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 25: The Castle of Sand (1974)
The Castle of Sand (1974) Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura Produced by Shinobu Hashimoto, Yoshihara Mishima, Masayuki Sato Written by Seicho...
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awolverton77
- Nov 24, 2018
- 2 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 24: Bang! You're Dead (1954)
Bang! You’re Dead (aka Game of Danger) (1954) Directed and produced by Lance Comfort Written by Ernest Borneman, Guy Elmes Cinematography...
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awolverton77
- Nov 21, 2018
- 1 min
Noirvember 2018, Episode 23: The Man I Love (1946)
The Man I Love (1946) Directed by Raoul Walsh Produced by Arnold Albert Screenplay by W.R. Burnett, Catherine Turney Based on the novel...
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