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Blast of SilenceOther

by Allen Baron

Who uses, recommends or left Blast of Silence, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jeremy Workman
American documentary filmmaker and editor of films about artists, eccentrics and outsiders, among them The World Before Your Feet (2018), Lily Topples the World (2021) and Secret Mall Apartment (2024); he has also cut many of Criterion's trailers.
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Movies like Don Siegel’s The Lineup and Irving Lerner’s Murder by Contract (both of which have popped up on the new Criterion Channel recently!) embody this subgenre, but the high point for me is Allen Baron’s Blast of Silence, which seems to grow in stature every year.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jeremy Workman, the entry for Blast of Silence.

2019-06-19·criterion.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

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What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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