Stories by Peter Hummers

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Stream On: Michael Cimino’s one shot, ‘The Deer Hunter’

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Michael Cimino’s second film transcended his erratic career and was a huge success—for a while. Full story

Nov 30

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Stream On: Filmmaking 101—Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’

By Peter Hummers
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece is a master class in direction, set design, exposition … and suspense. Full story

Nov 23

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Stream On: Scorsese’s forgotten masterpiece ‘Mean Streets’

By Peter Hummers
You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. Full story

Nov 16

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Stream On: Home on the strange—‘Dark Winds,’ a Navajo police procedural

By Peter Hummers
Mystery writer Tony Hillerman’s canon finally produces a binge-worthy TV series. Full story

Nov 9

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Stream On: Going Greene with ‘Confidential Agent’

By Peter Hummers
Graham Greene only wrote the book for money, but this film adaptation was one of the few of his novels that he enjoyed. Full story

Nov 2

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Stream On: families that steal together…? ‘Heat’ and ‘The Killing’

By Peter Hummers
Two heist movies focus on the domestic lives of the players. Full story

Oct 26

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Stream On: What’s old is new—can you go home again? Two reboots

By Peter Hummers
‘Frasier’ and ‘Justified’ return to television with new seasons in 2023. Full story

Oct 19

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Stream On: Going Greene with ‘The End of the Affair’

By Peter Hummers
Be careful what you pray for! Two film versions of Graham Greene’s great “Catholic novel.” Full story

Oct 12

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Stream On: ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’—by nature or grace?

By Peter Hummers
A young girl is torn between nature and grace in 1912 Brooklyn, in Elia Kazan’s first film. Full story

Oct 5

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Stream On: Going Greene—‘The Quiet American,’ a very bad dancer

By Peter Hummers
Graham Greene published his novel “The Quiet American” in 1955, and while the plot is a love triangle, its setting was prophetic, foreshadowing the futility of America’s involvement in Vietnam. Full story

Sep 28

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Stream On, at the end of the world as we know it: ‘Dr. Strangelove’

By Peter Hummers
Stanley Kubrick’s great 1964 cold-war satire ‘Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ was misunderstood in the day. Full story

Sep 22

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Stream On: ‘Memento.’ It’s like waking. Like you just woke up.

By Peter Hummers
“My wife deserves vengeance. Doesn't make a difference whether I know about it. Just because there are things I don't remember doesn't make my actions meaningless.” Full story

Sep 14