1. The PP Mobler 501 Chair (1949)

    Good evening. Tomorrow's Monday brings us fair weather in New York, but looms a bit heavier than usual. After much anticipation, we have the first...
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  2. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

    Surely when twenty-six year old Louis Malle directed his "Elevator to the Gallows" (1958), he may not have been aware his film would, in time, hol...
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  3. 400 Blows (1959)

    Mid-Autumn: turtlenecks, classrooms, and falling leaves. Ah, where do we begin the season? Perhaps none are more apt than scenes from François Tru...
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  4. Out of Africa (1985)

    It is mid-holiday-weekend; time seems still, summer yawns into fall. You may choose to lay supine with a book, film, good company... or more likel...
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  5. Grey Gardens (1975)

    This Labor Day, as you may lay in East Hampton among white clapboard houses and cold drinks, let us take a few steps further along the coast—and a...
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  6. Plein Soleil (1960)

    Before summer draws to a close, what else to do but to lay supine in this languid heat? We open our doors to you of "Take Twelve": a drawing room ...
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