take it from the top
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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