Snobbin: Beautiful Trash in the Pop Culture Gutter

Speak Easily (1932), Edward Sedgewick, MGM The Ghoul ( 1933), T. Hayes Hunter, Gaumont British Dark Hazard (1934), Alfred E. Green, Warner Bros. The Ghost Walks (1934), Frank R. Strayer, Chesterfield Pictures The Clairvoyant ( 1935), Maurice Elvey, Gaumont British Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936), Sam Newfield, Republic Kid Galahad (1937), Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Something to Sing About (1937), Victor Schertzinger, Grand National Professor Beware ( 1938), Elliott Nugent, Paramount Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939), James P. Hogan, Paramount Kitty Foyle ( 1940), Sam Wood, RKO Double Cross ( 1941), Albert H. Kelley, Producers Releasing Saboteur (1942), Alfred Hitchcock, Universal The Seventh Victim (1943), Mark Robson, RKO The Woman in the Window (1944), Fritz Lang, MGM Blood on the Sun (1945), Frank LLoyd, United Artists The Inner Circle (1946), Philip F...

L 'inferno (1911), Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro The Conquest of the Pol e (1912), Georges Méliès, Star Film Company The Miracle (1912), Michel Antoine Carre, Joseph Menchen The Student of Prague (1913), Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener, Deutsche Bioscop The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914), J. Farrell McDonald, Paramount The Cheat (1915), Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount Intolerance (1916), D.W. Griffith, Triangle Distributing Corporation A Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Maurice Tourneur, Artcraft Shoulder Arms (1918), Charlie Chaplin, First National The Hoodlum (1919), Sidney Franklin, First National Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), John S. Robertson, Paramount A Sailor-Made Man (1921), Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach Studios Grandma's Boy (1922), Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach Studios Our Hospitality (1923), Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone, Joseph M. ...

20. All Through the Night (1942), Vincent Sherman, Warner Bros. A fun Humphrey Bogart romp with a plot that often seems to be coming apart at the seams. It is held together by great performances from Peter Lorre and Kaaren Verne. Humphrey plays a gambler that becomes a detective. 19. The Square (2017), Ruben Ostlund, TriArt The Square is difficult to describe, and beneath the oddness there is an interesting satirical film. A curator with many personal and professional issues struggles to clean up the damage that has been done to his museum after a controversial video for one of the installations almost ruins his reputation. The cinematography and color palette, as well as a few disturbing performances, lend the film a vibe that is at times humorous and at other times shocking. I recommend this one if you like art films that also provoke discussion. 18. Black Girl (1966), Ousmane Sembene, New Yorker Black Girl , one of the first sub-Saharan African films, add...