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Reading Notes 65: "Back to the Stone Age"

With stills from Billy Wilder's The Long Weekend (1945)

1 hr ago • Artworldgladio

March 2026

Reading Notes 64: The war goes Lindy

With stills from Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (1963)

Mar 26 • Artworldgladio

Reading Notes 63: The Not-Yet-Conscious Shift

With stills from Jean-Luc Godard's Le petit soldat (1963)

Mar 19 • Artworldgladio

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Reading Notes 62: The wonders of a world hooked on oil

With stills from William Friedkin's Sorcerer (1977)

Mar 13 • Artworldgladio

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Reading Notes 61: The old world is still dying

With stills from Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969)

Mar 5 • Artworldgladio

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February 2026

Reading Notes 60: Highly agentic young men

With stills from Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947)

Feb 26 • Artworldgladio

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Reading Notes 59: War, Again

With stills from Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958)

Feb 19 • Artworldgladio

Reading Notes 58: They're selling again!

With stills from Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Feb 12 • Artworldgladio

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Reading Notes 57: 2048

With stills from Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Feb 5 • Artworldgladio

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January 2026

Reading Notes 56: Cui bono?

With stills from Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlett Empress (1934)

Jan 29 • Artworldgladio

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Reading Notes 55: Four Theories of American Empire in Venezuela

With stills from Andre de Toth's Crime Wave (1954)

Jan 22 • Artworldgladio

Reading Notes 54: Playing too cute

With stills from Samuel Fuller's The Naked Kiss (1964)

Jan 15 • Artworldgladio

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