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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Faber Modern Classics

P.D. James

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Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective...

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Mark Fieldsend

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As Dom Carter points out during a prime-time interview on national television: "Life is like a...

Shocker (1989)

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Master of horror, Wes Craven, directs this exciting visual treat which introduces a diabolical mass...

Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age

F. Hollis Griffin

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The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed...

James Franco recommended Gimme Shelter (1970) in Movies (curated)

Gimme Shelter (1970)

1970 | Documentary, Music, Thriller

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"""It’s just amazing. I’ve been watching all of the Maysles Brothers‘ films and I’m really into their approach, which they called “direct cinema”, and the whole school that came out of DA Pennebaker, Robert Drew and so on. I love the whole idea that life can be as dramatic as fiction. It’s very different than reality television, because that’s very manipulated. The Maysles’ approach is minimal interaction and being as observational as possible. Gimme Shelter has such drama, and it’s so well-done. As are all of their films. I also love Salesman, which also proves that their philosophy can really work, because it just has these real Bible salesmen. But to me it has as much drama and tension as Arthur Miller or Eugene O’Neill – it’s like the Death of a Salesman and The Iceman Cometh all rolled together – but it’s real! I just can’t get enough of it."""

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Pat Healy recommended The Night of the Hunter (1955) in Movies (curated)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

1955 | Drama, Mystery

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"Robert Mitchum stars in his signature role as the demonic preacher Harry Powell. The great actor Charles Laughton’s only work as a director is a horrifying fable about the loss of innocence and the darkness barely contained beneath the veneer of American pastoral life. It’s a one-of-a-kind movie. There’s nothing like it. Powerful, beautiful, darkly funny. Visually stunning. Both expressionistic and harshly realistic. It’s an American fever dream that I don’t think was equaled until David Lynch launched Blue Velvet into an unsuspecting Reagan-era public three decades later. The disc features Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a deconstruction of the film featuring outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage that enhances the experience of an already perfect film in ways unimaginable. Compiled by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, it’s a special feature as good as the film itself."

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