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Chuck Stephens

A Face in the Crowd: Charles Napier

By Chuck Stephens
June 30, 2015
The Harry Ape: Charles Napier’s mean streaks and softer sides

A Face in the Crowd: Hope Emerson

By Chuck Stephens
June 21, 2015
Female Trouble: Keep Hope (Emerson) Alive

A Face in the Crowd: Big Sleeper

By Chuck Stephens
February 25, 2015
Louis Jean Heydt, steady as a rock

A Face in the Crowd: A Child’s Garden of Flies

By Chuck Stephens
February 5, 2015
Jill Banner’s deadly spider girl

A Face in the Crowd: Paul Kelly

By Chuck Stephens
June 22, 2014
Punch-Drunk Love: Paul Kelly’s movie career beat the odds

A Face in the Crowd: Greek Culture

By Chuck Stephens
December 30, 2013
The combustible Helena Kallianiotes lit a fire in Five Easy Pieces that still burns

Paranoid Pick: Seconds

By Chuck Stephens
August 22, 2013
(Criterion, $39.95)

A Face in the Crowd: Glenn Anders

By Chuck Stephens
August 22, 2013
A Little Target Practice: Lady from Shanghai supporting player Glenn Anders hits one perfect mark

German Cinema Pick: The Kingdom of Naples & The Bomber Pilot

By Chuck Stephens
July 9, 2013
(Edition Filmmuseum, €29.95)

A Face in the Crowd: Horse of a Different Color

By Chuck Stephens
July 8, 2013
Forties near-star Wanda Hendrix spoke in tongues and rode a painted pony

Pulp Pick: China Gate

By Chuck Stephens
April 28, 2013
(Olive Films, $24.95)

A Face in the Crowd: Jay C. Flippen

By Chuck Stephens
March 11, 2013
Coot du Jour: The darkest hours and brightest days of the multifaceted Jay C. Flippen

Eighties Pick: Personal Best

By Chuck Stephens
March 9, 2013
(Warner Archive, $18.95)

A Face in the Crowd: Ona Munson

By Chuck Stephens
January 14, 2013
Scarlet Nights and Lavender Days: Ona Munson’s tricks of the trade

Timber!

By Chuck Stephens
August 27, 2012
Rubbing against the grain of a leading man who put the the wood in Hollywood

A Face in the Crowd: Beverly Michaels

By Chuck Stephens
July 11, 2012
Late-noir firestarter Beverly Michaels’s moment in the Hollywood sun

A Face in the Crowd: Ed Lauter

By Chuck Stephens
June 7, 2012

Family Plot

An asp with ample sideburns, Ed Lauter has the squint of a serpent. He not infrequently appears cool to the touch. His forehead, which begins rising at his scowl and…

Lusty Man

By Chuck Stephens
November 1, 2011
Celebrating the life of George Kuchar (1942–2011), a colossus of the alternate underground

Essential Oshima

By Chuck Stephens
June 17, 2011
10 key films from the director of Gohatto

Five Immortals from the Shaw Brothers Crypt

By Chuck Stephens
June 1, 2011
They were grindhouse producers—this list shows you where to begin