1958 Archive

  • The James Jones book is about small-town life in postwar America. Vincente Minnelli’s film is a vehicle for its star, Frank Sinatra, and maybe that’s why it feels insincere: It […]

    Some Came Running

    The James Jones book is about small-town life in postwar America. Vincente Minnelli’s film is a vehicle for its star, Frank Sinatra, and maybe that’s why it feels insincere: It […]

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  • Many Alfred Hitchcock films are great entertainments, but they are contraptions next to Vertigo. Full of dread, and highly personal for all of us, it is Hitchcock at his most […]

    Vertigo

    Many Alfred Hitchcock films are great entertainments, but they are contraptions next to Vertigo. Full of dread, and highly personal for all of us, it is Hitchcock at his most […]

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