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

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

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  • 2008-06-08
  • Viewing Journal On Film, Movies, Cinema

The iPhone Easily Led Me into the Future

Reflections on getting an iPhone

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  • 2008-01-12
  • Idle Reflections

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

Rear Window appears a murder mystery in which Jeff and Lisa play amateur sleuths. In truth, the film is a fantasy about the strange gravity between sex and murder.

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  • 2007-12-08
  • Faves On Film, Movies, Cinema

Chet Travels: sur les bricoleurs de l’angoisse

One of the things I learned on my last trip to Paris was about this special group of individuals in French society. They have been called the “bricoleurs de l’angoisse,”...

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  • 2007-09-04
  • Idle Reflections Way Back

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

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

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  • 2004-08-26
  • Idle Reflections Way Back
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