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Travel Is Above All an Inner Journey: Interview with Photographer Sophie Denux
It is easy to see that Sophie Denux’s photography is transporting. Hers is a discreet and elegant guidance into the culture and people of the places she travels to. Read More
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Deadly Kitty Collins: Ava Gardner in The Killers
Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster and Virginia Christine in “The Killers”, 1946. Universal Pictures An adaptation after a short story by Ernest Hemingway, Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946), is a tour de force of the noir genre, one that covers … Read More
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Read Instead…in Print
Camille Paglia’s essay on The Birds is a superb piece of writing about cinema and the est and most compelling I have read about the film itself. Read More
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November Newsletter: On Noirvember and Tom Waits’ Noir Sensibility
Right: Film poster by Tony Stella for the neo-noir “Gloria”, 1980 Photos: Classiq Journal, unless otherwise stated You take a deeper and deeper dive into noir’s murky stories. The more obscure, the more forgotten, the less known, … Read More
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The Sea Library: In Conversation with Anna Iltnere
Photo credit: Anna Iltnere I believe it is always the simplest things and choosing your own journey, struggles and all, that hold the answer to a life well lived, a beautifully imperfect life. Putting our faith in the … Read More
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