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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

blind spot series 1929, 2014 blindspot, being norma jean, big screen small words, blindspot, brittani burnham, classicblanca, dani eide, documentary, dziga vertov, fisti, fisti on film, girl meets cinema, inspired ground, katy rochelle, lime reviews and strawberry confessions, man with a movie camera, mette kowalski, nikhat zahra, perspective of a writer, rambling film, russian, sean kelly, silent film, silver emulsion, sk on movies, steven flores, surrender to the void, will kouf

Blindsided by MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

It’s amazing how sharp and influential a piece of art can seem eighty-five years after it was created.

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 1989, 2014 blindspot, a fistful of films, a space blogyssey, abstew, amir soltani, amiresque, andina, being norma jean, big screen small words, bob turnbull, brittani burnham, canadian, christian bordea, cinema axis, classicblanca, courtney small, dan heaton, dani eide, eternal sunshine of the logical mind, films and coke, flix chatter, heart of cinema, inspired ground, jay cluitt, jesus of montreal, life vs film], lime reviews and strawberry confessions, mette kowalski, movies and songs 365, nikhat zahra, perspective of a writer, public transportation snob, rambling film, rich watson, sean kelly, shantanu ghumare, sk on movies, steven flores, surrender to the void, the film's the thing, to the movies and back, u me and film, wide screen world

Blindsided by JESUS OF MONTREAL

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

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Ryan McNeil

blind spot series 1971, 2014 blindspot, a space blogyssey, amir soltani, amiresque, andina, andrew robinson, being norma jean, blaxploitation, brittani burnham, charles cioffi, christian bordea, christopher st. john, cinema axis, classicblanca, courtney small, films and coke, fistful of cinema, flix chatter, getter trumsi, gman reviews, gwenn mitchell, heart of cinema, inspired ground, jandy hardesty, lime reviews and strawberry confessions, mette kowalski, mettel ray, moses gunn, movies and songs 365, nikhat zahra, perspective of a writer, rambling film, richard roundtree, row three, SDG, sean kelly, shaft, silver emulsion, sk on movies, steve flores, surrender to the void, the film's the thing, to the movies and back, u me and, will kouf

Blindsided by SHAFT

February 25, 2014

I was ill-equipped to hold court with black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks. So for once, I asked for guidance.

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Ryan McNeil

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