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Luke Baynes is a graduate of the University of Vermont. An aficionado of diners and the highways of America, he’s most at home in a darkened movie theater as the lights begin to flicker. Send Luke your comments at lukebaynes@gmail.com.

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Classics from the vault: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Friday, December 11th, 2009

This past weekend I went to the movies at The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. It’s an old style movie theater, with the screen set at the back...
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Film Noir 101: A weekend of darkness at the Savoy in Montpelier

Film noir, as the French would come to call it, was a unique byproduct of artistic and sociological forces that had its start in America in the early...
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Classics from the vault: Two from John Sturges

John Sturges was a reliable craftsman, a solid pro who made entertaining and intelligent action movies across a variety of genres. I would stop short...
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Classics from the vault: Peter Bogdanovich's Targets

When Peter Bogdanovich was offered the chance to make a feature film by B-movie king Roger Corman, there were two stipulations. The first was that he...
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Classics from the vault: Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story

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If The Phenix City Story took place in the year 1300 instead of 1954, it could have been the model for Dante’s fourth circle of Hell. The...
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Classics from the vault: Fred Zinnemann's Act of Violence, starring Van Heflin and Robert Ryan

One of the marks of a great actor is versatility: the ability to play many shades of good and bad, hero and villain. Take an actor like Gene Hackman....
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New on DVD: Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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There’s minimalism, and then there’s Chantal Akerman. Taking her cue from Jean-Luc Godard’s films from Pierrot le fou on, the...
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Classics from the vault: Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra

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If there’s one role that defines Frank Sinatra the movie star and is closest to his off-screen persona, it’s Dave Hirsh in Some Came...
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Classics from the vault: Thunder Road

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Thunder Road is one of those kinds of movies that you stumble upon on TV in the middle of the night when you can’t sleep and it just blows you...
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Classics from the vault: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

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“At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe.” - Bruce Springsteen, 1982 Of all the precursors to the indie...
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