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  Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2024

  I noticed here a nice technique when through the window of the room, where something is happening, you can see the street, usually the wall of another house or houses. This creates a very deep composition of the frame, additional space appears in the room, and the director can put some extra information there. This has already been in several Preminger films, and it is here too.

  It's almost perfect film noir, only slightly inferior to Laura. The plot is about a policeman, not a private detective, but there are a lot of important noir elements, except perhaps the femme fatale.

  11 out of 12

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  Whirlpool 1950

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Buffalo '66 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Usually, I don’t like “controversial” films, because they sacrifice aesthetics and ethics for the sake of promoting some agenda. But sometimes there are works where the controversy or provocation is not programmatic, or which, despite being programmatic, are made so wonderfully that the form, not the content, takes the focus. And there is a third option when you don't understand whether there is some agenda here or not, and whether it is a deliberately brilliantly made film or it just…

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  The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  A very unusual film. Peckinpah moved away even from the illusion of realism here and the metaphor turned into a parable. So this is not a western, but an interesting parable in the scenery of a western.

  The story of a loser tramp who is left to die in the desert by his friends. His life adventures take place during the change of eras and the decline of the Wild West world, and in this regard, the film is similar…