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The Lost One's Long Journey

The Lost One's Long Journey

The Ballad of the Record Changers - Self-Styled Siren (no paywall)

New Year, New Thoughts - Self-Styled Siren

Trouble in Paradise (1932) | The Criterion Collection (essay)

Captain Blood (1935) | The Criterion Collection (essay)

WSJ Book Review: SCENE by Abel Ferrara

ALL MY SONS - LE – Powerhouse Films Ltd (Blu-ray commentary with Glenn Kenny)

Hell's Angels (Video interview about Jean Harlow's career)

The Affairs of Anatol

World Noir Vol. 4 (LE) (Booklet essay for Chnouf, aka Razzia sur la chnouf)

Nouvelles Femmes (WSJ book review)

BONJOUR TRISTESSE - LE (commentary with Glenn Kenny) – Powerhouse Films Ltd

Dear Ruth (Blu-ray commentary) - Kino Lorber Home Video

The Farmer's Daughter (Blu-ray commentary) - Kino Lorber Home Video

The Americans: On “Henry Fonda for President” on Notebook | MUBI

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema (1945-1960) – Book essays on Cavalcanti and Huntington

World Noir Vol 3 (LE) – Radiance Films (Booklet Essay on The Lost One)

The Big Heat (1953) | The Criterion Collection (Video essay)

‘Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg’ Review: MGM’s Money Man and Wonder Boy - WSJ

Look Back at Mary Ure

Chicago

Cast Against Type: Heroes as Villains

Christmas for Film Nerds

Starring Ida Lupino

Three Women

Alice and Nora and George

Hunting for Hazel Brooks

In Memoriam: Alain Delon | Tributes | Roger Ebert

Not So Sultry: Ella Raines

The Siren's Summer Books

Rediscovering Yasuzo Masumura at Karlovy Vary

Debbie Reynolds in Her Own Words

"There Is No Formula": John Huston on Remakes

Bleak, bittersweet and tough: I miss 1970s movies (interview with Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune — paywall)

Gowns by Irene

Piccadilly (1929): Audio commentary for Kino-Lorber Blu-ray

"Tod Browning's Ballyhoo Art" at Criterion

‘Every Man for Himself and God Against All’ review at WSJ Books

UNIVERSAL NOIR #2 (with Glenn Kenny for LADY ON A TRAIN)

"Noir by Gaslight" series on the Criterion Channel

Ivy (1947)

Bye-bye Babylon

The Clarence Brown Film Festival in Knoxville

Silent Movie Week at MoMA, Starring Stella Dallas

The Many Lives of Alain Delon

BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY (Commentary with Glenn Kenny)

The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher (video extra on Randolph Scott)

Hugo Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD (booklet essay)

Frank and Hedy

Restored Masterpiece From Argentina Screens Online This Weekend

STATE OF THE UNION - LE (Commentary with Glenn Kenny and Claire Kenny)

Film critic Farran Nehme on that other infamous Oscar moment

COLUMBIA NOIR #5: HUMPHREY BOGART - LE (Commentary with Glenn Kenny for THE HARDER THEY FALL)

Strike Up the Theme Songs, Part Two

Strike Up the Theme Songs

Without True Love We Just Exist: Burt Bacharach (1928-2023) | Tributes | Roger Ebert

The Official Siren Dozen of 2022

Jeanne Eagels in The Letter (1929): A fresh restoration will play MoMA on Jan. 13 and 25

A Year in the Work

‘Babylon’: The Myths and True Stories That Inspired the Classic Hollywood Epic

‘Hollywood’ Review: Reel Conversations

Poll position: old is gold

Dans la Nuit

Books on Buster Keaton: Reading the Great Stone Face

Spirit Roommates: A True Halloween Tale of Alabama and Last Night in Soho

Dames, Janes, Dolls and Canaries (at MoMA Magazine)

Substack: Self-Styled Siren

Blog: Self-Styled Siren

Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting - Library of America

Classic Hollywood Little Women captures the story’s appeal for all time - Library of America