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“Pépé le Moko” (1937): Failure to Escape

17 years ago

Comments on the 1936 film Pépé le Moko, starring Jean Gabin, and set in the Casbah

  • Idle Reflections

The iPhone Easily Led Me into the Future

17 years ago

Reflections on getting an iPhone

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Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954): Murder as Fantasy, Sex as Violence

18 years ago

Rear Window appears a murder mystery in which Jeff and Lisa play amateur sleuths. In truth, the film is a…

  • Idle Reflections

Chet Travels: sur les bricoleurs de l’angoisse

18 years ago

One of the things I learned on my last trip to Paris was about this special group of individuals in…

  • Idle Reflections

from the journals of Chet (8/6/04)

21 years ago

A lovely set of days in Umbria, Italy, with philosophers and one in particular.