Terry Teachout

@terryteachout

critic, biographer, playwright, librettist, recovering musician, inveterate blogger, ebullient pessimist, outgoing introvert, author of SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF

New York City
Joined January 2009

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  1. WATCH THIS MOVIE.

  2. The plight of serious indie flicks today, in Friday's

  3. Me on serious indie flicks, in the in 1999:

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    this book is garbage. Nowhere in here does it say how to kill a mockingbird.

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    A gay Iraqi Muslim writes powerfully about his escape. "My own father would have let ISIS kill me," he says. This...

  6. Mrs. T and I are now watching "D.O.A.," which is absurd and wonderful (as is Dimitri Tiomkin's EXTREMELY overwrought score).

  7. Look and listen:

  8. Superb direction, and Robert Ryan's acting is inspired--but it's Bernard Herrmann who turns straightforward naturalism into lyric theater.

  9. If you want to understand what a great score can contribute to a first-rate movie, watch Nicholas Ray's "On Dangerous Ground."

  10. And we're watching that one next.

  11. "Raw Deal" has a GREAT score by Paul Sawtell, another underrated studio-era composer.

  12. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...Perry Mason, sadistic mobster:

  13. Dennis O'Keefe was no Charles McGraw, but he'll do in a pinch.

  14. Is there a film noir with a more perfectly indicative title than Anthony Mann's "Raw Deal"? Or one with a sleazier heavy than Raymond Burr?

  15. My review of 's production of "The Winter's Tale" is now on line:

  16. My review of ' revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" is now on line:

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    Hoover’s War on Gays: A Review

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    This is what it took to move a 5mb hard drive in 1956.

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    And she likes "All That Jazz"! She is perfection in human form. :)

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    Not "The Kennel Murder Case"? Which is, as everyone knows, the perfect film?

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