DVD NOTES.(Where the Sidewalk Ends)(House by the River)(Video Recording Review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 26-DEC-05

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NOIR AND AGAIN -- The American film noir of the postwar era resulted largely from the unleashing of the hyper-expressive filmmaking styles of immigrant German-speaking directors. Two new DVDs reveal the differences and similarities between two masters of the genre.

The New York police detective Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews), who has more than a dozen brutality...

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