The Killing with Patton Oswalt
Blank Check with Griffin & David
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The Criterion Is a Film That Feels Modern to Me
This is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me, you know. And there's a modernism, I think, to the performances in this, which is probably what Kubrick was trying to push towards. Because it's a very simple story. Sterling Hayden's character is not a clever man. He is a jumped up liquor store robber. It's all brutality and violence. It's point A to point B. But in his mind, because he made friends with a chess player, he's like, I want to be,. I want to do a, like a chess move kind of thing. The scene with the wrestler is all about the sort of futility of this
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