Episode 71: 1954 with Glenn Kenny
A podcast about the great movie years.
Glenn Kenny is the author of the new book The World Is Yours: The Story of ‘Scarface,’ and is one of our favorite film critics and scholars in general. He’s here to talk about the mighty 1954, a less-discussed year that gave us everything from Seven Samurai to Rear Window to Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Seven Samurai is streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel, and is available for digital rental or purchase; there’s also a gorgeous Criterion Blu-ray. Rear Window is streaming on Amazon Prime Video and is available for digital rental or purchase or on 4K UHD. (Jason also wrote something for Crooked Marquee about its utter horniness.)
Johnny Guitar is available for digital rental or purchase. Journey to Italy is streaming on Max, the Criterion Channel, and Kanopy, and is available for digital rental or purchase or as part of Criterion’s excellent Rossellini/Bergman Blu-ray box set.
And Creature from the Black Lagoon is available for digital rental or purchase, as well as on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Universal.
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