The Magic Lantern

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Episode 024 – Psycho

Posted July 4, 2016 • 01:30:34

You may think you know all there is to know about Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Watch it again. Right now. Joseph Stefano (from Robert Bloch’s...

Episode 023 – Inherit the Wind

Posted June 20, 2016 • 01:22:18

Hear ye, hear ye! Court is now in session. All rise for our examination of Stanley Kramer’s sterling courtroom drama, Inherit the Wind (1960). This...

Episode 022 – Darker Than Amber

Posted June 6, 2016 • 00:56:52

I first saw Robert Clouse’s Darker Than Amber (1970) two years ago, which was a full 44 years after its initial release. That year, I counted it among...

Episode 021 – The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Posted May 23, 2016 • 01:13:59

It’s been a long time since I have been as immediately taken with a film the way I was with Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)....

Episode 020 – The Vanishing

Posted May 9, 2016 • 01:11:30

How far are you willing to go? In George Sluizer’s The Vanishing (1988), Rex makes the ultimate choice to follow the trail of the disappeared Saskia...