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repeat performance (1947)

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Dec 13, 2023
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Joan Leslie in Repeat Performance (1947)

In 2022, I was supposed to review a recently re-discovered and re-released noir called Repeat Performance. But I never filed it for reasons no one remembers. Since Repeat Performance is now on the Criterion Channel, I thought I’d dust off what I had written…. Enjoy! It’s in a kind of different register than what’s usually on here, I guess.

I’ve written about time loops a couple times before. Once for Commonweal and once for the Hedgehog Review. If threatened I may even do it again.

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