Thursday, April 02, 2020

Zachary Scott's Gilded Cage: Excerpt from Article at Noir City Magazine

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The Noir City E-Mag No. 30, Spring 2020, has sprung, and the Siren has a piece in it, about the career of the genre’s quintessential play...
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Sunday, September 08, 2019

The Big Clock (1948, John Farrow)

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 Not all film noir takes place in a seedy underworld; sometimes noir arrives on the commuter train wearing a custom-made suit. ...
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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Olivia (1951)

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(Olivia is a co-release by Icarus Films and Distrib Films US. The film's glorious 4K restoration was done by Les Films de la Pleiade...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Hold Back the Dawn, at Last on Blu Ray

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The Siren is inordinately pleased to announce that the home-video gods have heard our pleas: Hold Back the Dawn , Mitchell Leisen’s best ...
Sunday, March 03, 2019

The House by the River (1950)

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“Lang never approached a project casually; he enjoyed making films too much.”  —Peter Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It In 195...
Friday, January 18, 2019

It's Lonely at the Top, Mostly Because You're a Drunk: The Biopics of 1957

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The Siren challenges you to find a photo of Jeanne Eagels wearing anything like this. Gather round, patient readers, and listen to how ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

To Save and Project: The 16th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

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Greetings, O friends of the Siren. For those of you residing in the New York area, rejoice: To Save and Project, the Museum of Modern Art’s ...