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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
David Pratt-Robson in the Auteurs' Notebook : "By the time of 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...
 
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
I can't think about Allan Baron's 1961 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,"...
 
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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
I can't think about Allan Baron's 1961 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,"...
 
Tags: psychotronic, film, film collectors, blast, film takes, film freaks, psychotronic fave, psychotronic encyclopedia, michael weldon
 
 
 
 
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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,...
 
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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
Between 1961 and 1963, one Larry Tucker racked up a cinematic trifecta not to be sneezed at, essaying three unforgettable portraits of three deeply creepy characters in three exceptional films The first was in Blast of Silence , the once ultra-obscure 1961 thriller directed by and starring Allen Baron. Baron plays hitman Frankie Bono, "from...
 
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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
Between 1961 and 1963, one Larry Tucker racked up a cinematic trifecta not to be sneezed at, essaying three unforgettable portraits of three deeply creepy characters in three exceptional films The first was in Blast of Silence , the once ultra-obscure 1961 thriller directed by and starring Allen Baron. Baron plays hitman Frankie Bono, "from...
 
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull A Movie Pulse Review

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2008-05-22 14:15:55 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
Genre: Action/Adventure and Sequel Running Time: 2 hrs. 3 min Theatrical Release Date: May 22nd, 2008 MPAA Rating: PG-13 for adventure violence and scary images Directed By: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Shia LeBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, John Hurt, Ray Winstone and Jim Broadbent Indiana Jones is no longer a man of reason,...
 
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Beyond Belief: Trinity and Beyond

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2008-06-23 00:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
Around this time of year I always beginning reading about the Manhattan Project. It enters my psyche this time every year as the date draws closer to July 16th, that fateful day in history when, in 1945, the world officially entered the atomic age. I have a small library of information, biographies and histories on the subject as it's fascinated...
 
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2007-12-20 11:02:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
Raymond Benson Revisited Former James Bond author Raymond Benson has announced on his website that three of his Bond books will be re-released next year as an omnibus--along with the highly sought after short story "Blast From the Past!" I'm a little bit surprised, since Ian Fleming Publications has been pretending like none of the previous...
 
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MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)

2008-01-16 00:15:08 by Editor in SF Signal