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Bex Sinden's avatar

Congratulations on your new role!!! Writing weekly newsletters is a huge commitment, so I understand why you need to scale back. I’ll look forward to your posts regardless of frequency.

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John Calendo's avatar

I too avoided Nightmare Alley, then loved it on HBO. It became the centerpiece of a substack post I wrote on Film Noir. Nightmare Alley is Neo Noir and blunts a lot of hard edges in classic 1940s Noir, which was so in the grips of WW II that it advanced the idea that a jaundiced cynicism was the universal condition. You might enjoy my take on the picture. You can find my post here:

https://movieland.substack.com/p/film-noir-my-noir

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