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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The only thing that consoles us for our miseries isdiversion, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries.—Pascal. On Turner Classic Movies Philip Marlowe is grimacing at the slinky beauty of the woman who will become the wife of the actor playing him. The man playing me . . .
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Pathophilia (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Murder, My Sweet (1944): Hungry for clients, private dick Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) gets tangled up in two seemingly disconnected investigations. Based on Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely. You won't find harder-boiled flashback narration. To wit: I just found out all...
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Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... when called for, the fists to get the clues. It's as if Miss Marple went into business and hired Philip Marlowe to do the legwork. Of course, Wolfe is loathe to put his mind to work, preferring to focus on his orchids and his dinner. More often than not, it's only a result of Archie's needling that they take on any work at all -- if only because they have bills to pay. And since Wolfe...
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Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Director Noah Buschel's melancholic neo-modern yarn about a hard-drinking private eye (Revolutionary Road's? Michael Shannon) tracking a man reported missing is overly fussy and self-conscious in its noir details. But in The Missing Person, Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition to tell a story of disorientation and loss in a post-9/11 world where the Twin...