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Blindsided by DANCER IN THE DARK

November 25, 2014

As winter creeps in, a film arrives giving me a song to sing in my head…which is a good thing because it will leave my heart empty.

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Ryan McNeil

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Blindsided by STAGECOACH

October 28, 2014

In watching a classic western, I realize that it has actually shaped my whole appreciation for the genre.

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 1939, 2014 blindspot, a fistful of films, abstew, blindspot, brittani burnham, dan heaton, flix chatter, geer garson, goodbye mr. chips, half a film student, heart of cinema, hitchcock's world, inspired ground, jay cluitt, john hitchcock, karamel kinema, life vs film], movies and songs 365, niall mcardle, public transportation snob, raging fluff, robert donat, sam wood, sean kelly, shantanu ghumare, silver emulsion, silver screen sessions, sk on movies, surrender to the void, terry kilburn, the cinematic spectacle, the film's the thing, u me and film, will kouf

Blindsided by GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS

School’s out for summer, but some teachers will stay with us forever.

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 2014 blindspot, a fistful of films, a space blogyssey, big screen small words, blindspot, foreign film, french, girl meets cinema, gman reviews, jandy hardesty, jean-pierre melville, le samourai, life vs film], lime reviews and strawberry confessions, movies and songs 365, perspective of a writer, public transportation snob, rambling film, silver emulsion, silver screen sessions, sk on movies, the frame, to the movies and back, u me and film

Blindsided by LE SAMOURAI

Thoughts on a patient classic in an impatient age.

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Ryan McNeil

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Blindsided by JESUS OF MONTREAL

Peace be with you: A reading from The Gospel according to Saint Denys…

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Ryan McNeil

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Blindsided by CHARADE

January 28, 2014

It was bound to happen eventually: The realization that I wasn’t as blind as I thought. But what would that mean for the first watch of this classic?

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Ryan McNeil

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