Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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Shack Out on 101 (1955)
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Read more: Shack Out on 101 (1955)In 1955 the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany officially ended. Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time, and Kermit the Frog was introduced to the world by the young Jim Henson. Yes, Kermit’s a Boomer.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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Read more: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)Here at Ruthless, we have and will never stop singing the praises of Robert Altman. He was and he remains Americas greatest director
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Black Narcissus (1947)
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Read more: Black Narcissus (1947)Underneath the habits, stoic facades, and judgmental sneers, nuns (especially of the Anglican variety) are coiled jungle cats of intoxicating lust…
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Written on the Wind (1956)
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Read more: Written on the Wind (1956)Sirk brings the immaculately overdone melodrama.
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Scenes From a Marriage
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Read more: Scenes From a MarriageAs one essay I read stated, Bergman has moved from “Does God exist? to Does love exist?”
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Gunga Din
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Read more: Gunga DinWhite Man’s Burden…
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Read more: The Wages of Fear (1953)Humanity is no match for the power of hunger.
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Come On, Billy Wilder
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Read more: Come On, Billy WilderC’mon Billy, Come to me, You know I’m waiting, I love you endlessly, C’mon Billy, You’re the only one… These mania-infused lyrics are from a glorious PJ Harvey paean and it’s only when she goes on to reveal ‘having his son’ that I twig she isn’t singing about the late, great Billy Wilder. But even…
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Starring Debuts #26: Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal (1957)
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Read more: Starring Debuts #26: Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal (1957)We’re film fans, right? This means we’ve occasionally gotta get out of our comfort zone and give the likes of the mopey-as-fuck Ingmar Bergman a go. It can’t all be Arnie, Scorpio and King Kong breaking a dinosaur’s jaws, can it? And so to fourteenth-century Sweden. A bloke has come home from fighting the Crusades…
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The Outlaw (1943)
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Read more: The Outlaw (1943)Over 80 years after its release, perhaps the best-known thing about Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw is still the controversy over how much (or how little, by today’s standards) of Jane Russell’s breasts are on display. Hughes was forced by the Hollywood Production Code Administration to remove about 30 seconds of offending footage, but even after…