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New on DVD: Criterion's 'Blast of Silence'

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2008-04-18 03:07:29 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
Blast of Silence " was a latecomer to film noir, straggling into the naked city in 1961 -- 20 tough years after " The Maltese Falcon The Criterion Collection's revival of the hardboiled indie film -- a tense, bleak, stylish 77 minutes -- confirms star-director Allen Baron as a talented drive-by contributor to the genre. Anyone with a claim to...
 
Tags: dvd, film noir, film, blast, indie film, silence, criterion, baron, baron talks
 
 
 
 
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Criterion's Blast of Silence.

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2008-04-15 06:11:54 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Blast of Silence , Walter Benjamin , if not Edgar Allan Poe himself, had long ago laid the connection between detective fiction and flÃneurs, and a new type of consciousness (emblematized specially by the modern phenomenon of movie-going), in which the crux of identity lies in nothing innate and little lasting, but in the act of perceiving,...
 
Tags: silence, blast, city spaces, city, benjamin, ago laid, walter benjamin, detective fiction, edgar allan poe
 
 
 
 
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'Blast of Silence': Psychotronic noir

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2008-04-15 10:51:58 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...Blast of Silence without thinking of Cleveland, even though not a frame of the film takes place or was shot there. But the film's hitman anti-hero, "Baby Boy" Frankie Bono (played with note-perfect inarticulate inexpressiveness by Baron himself), is, as Lionel Stander's narrator notes, "out of Cleveland," and this bit of info was sufficient...
 
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'Blast of Silence': Psychotronic noir

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2008-04-15 10:51:58 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...Blast of Silence without thinking of Cleveland, even though not a frame of the film takes place or was shot there. But the film's hitman anti-hero, "Baby Boy" Frankie Bono (played with note-perfect inarticulate inexpressiveness by Baron himself), is, as Lionel Stander's narrator notes, "out of Cleveland," and this bit of info was sufficient...
 
Tags: psychotronic, film, film collectors, blast, film takes, film freaks, psychotronic fave, psychotronic encyclopedia, michael weldon
 
 
 
 
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Vintage Trailer: Blast-Off Girls (1967)

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2008-03-02 18:54:00 by Admin in Week in Rewind--Movie Reviews, DVD Reviews, HD DVD & Blu-ray Reviews by Christopher Smith
 
...Blast-Off Girls," which apparently "had the whole country hopping" upon its release. Hopping on what is curiously left unanswered. Hopping on a speedball is my guess Here are some gems about the Blast-Off Girls noted in the trailer They have the musicians popping the strings on their guitars This picture is so hot, it literally vibrates on...
 
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Moviegoer Diary: Blast of Silence, Jar City

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2008-04-28 18:19:00 by Paul Matwychuk in The Moviegoer
BLAST OF SILENCE Plot in a Nutshell A misanthropic hitman arrives in New York to carry out a murder in Allen Barons legendary 1961 crime flick, newly issued on DVD by Criterion Thoughts Made almost at the same time as Herk Harveys Carnival of Souls , another independently made but surprisingly potent genre flick to get the Criterion treatment,...
 
Tags: city, jar city, sheeps head, head, foodif jar city, film noir, film, frankie, hitman frankie bono
 
 
 
 
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India Jaipur Rocked By Blast

2008-05-13 20:57:00 by buyallgifts in Bollywood Movie News
 
...blasts that killed at least 60 people and injuring nearly 100 others, but that will probably rise with time and investigation. The multiple blast went off in a choreographed manner within about 20 minutes. The locations that are initially identified are Tripolia Bazar, Badi Choupal, Chhoti Choupal, Manas Chowk, Johari Bazar and Sanganeri Gate
 
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Three Faces of Larry Tucker

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2008-03-24 16:25:06 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...Blast of Silence , the once ultra-obscure 1961 thriller directed by and starring Allen Baron. Baron plays hitman Frankie Bono, "from Cleveland," in New York for a job, where he requires the services of a fellow named Ralphie. "Now to do business with Ralphie, and he turns your stomach," narrator Lionel Stander growls (the second-person...
 
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Three Faces of Larry Tucker

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2008-03-24 16:25:06 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...Blast of Silence , the once ultra-obscure 1961 thriller directed by and starring Allen Baron. Baron plays hitman Frankie Bono, "from Cleveland," in New York for a job, where he requires the services of a fellow named Ralphie. "Now to do business with Ralphie, and he turns your stomach," narrator Lionel Stander growls (the second-person...
 
Tags: tucker, larry tucker, tucker plays, tucker co-wrote, hire tucker, ralphie, fellow named ralphie, hirsute tucker, anderson
 
 
 
 
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull A Movie Pulse Review