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Film

Peter Strempel’s essays on cinema, and film reviews.

This Gun for Hire (1942)

11 February 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Not the noir some claim, but an outstanding hybrid with a powerful performance from Ladd and impressive mises en scène.

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Breaker Morant (1980)

25 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

A landmark Australian film made relevant afresh as we consider contemporary war crimes.

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005): two very different films

13 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

This is Ridley Scott’s most significant film, deserving a re-evaluation after the disaster that was the studio edit.

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Fight Club (1999), 20 years later

23 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Fight Club is not quite the celebration of toxic masculinity and anarchic revolt often assumed.

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Scorsese’s The Irishman: sad farewell to an era

14 January 2020 Peter Strempel 2

Scorsese and the cast of The Irishman say farewell to each other and an entire era of gangster films.

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Werk ohne Autor / Never Look Away (2018)

4 July 2019 Peter Strempel 0

Von Donnersmarck explores the effect of tyranny on truth and beauty with some surprising conclusions.

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Michael Caine & The Fourth Protocol (1987) … sort of

24 February 2019 Peter Strempel 0

Not among Caine’s top ten, but Forth Protocol was nevertheless more entertaining than most contemporary dross.

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A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

6 January 2019 Peter Strempel 0

Mickey Rourke was pedestrian in Prayer for the Dying, but this Jack Higgins story about an IRA assassin resonates with my past.

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Thirty years of tracking Hannibal Lecter

18 December 2017 Peter Strempel 0

How Hannibal Lecter became so much part of our culture that we are not even shocked by his crimes anymore.

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The Vietnam War (2017): I

21 November 2017 Peter Strempel 0

Brilliant, arresting, insightful, the Burns-Novick documentary is a masterpiece of propaganda not entirely negatively defined.

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The Vietnam War (2017): II

21 November 2017 Peter Strempel 0

The second part of my commentary on the arresting, brilliant Burns-Novick documentary.

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The Vietnam War (2017): III

21 November 2017 Peter Strempel 0

The third part of my commentary on the arresting, brilliant Burns-Novick documentary.

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The Vietnam War (2017): IV

21 October 2017 Peter Strempel 0

The fourth and final part of my commentary on the arresting, brilliant Burns-Novick documentary, The Vietnam War.

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Dark Passage (1947) as locus of film noir

6 June 2016 Peter Strempel 0

Dark Passage is an extended metaphor for the anti-communist witch-hunting in the USA during the 1940s and ’50s.

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The Deadly Affair (1966)

14 January 2016 Peter Strempel 0

Deadly Affair is a prurient adaptation of John Le Carre’s first novel, Call for the Dead.

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Features

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‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

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Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0
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What does Nietzsche say to us today?

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Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

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The Vietnam War (2017): I

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Underworld USA: America unimagined

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The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

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Existentialism as philosophy of action

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