Self-Styled Siren

In Memoriam: David Ehrenstein

(1947 – 2025)

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February 2025

Look Back at Mary Ure

A brief tribute to a too-brief career

Feb 18 • 

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January 2025

Cast Against Type: Heroes as Villains

Some notes for the series now playing at the Criterion Channel

Jan 28 • 

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Christmas for Film Nerds

To Save and Project is back at the Museum of Modern Art

Jan 8 • 

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December 2024

How to Write Your Star Autobiography

Ten plot points that (almost) always show up

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Three Women

Three new films, each with a great lead performance by a woman

Nov 3, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Alice and Nora and George

Introducing Alice Adams and The Talk of the Town at New York's Film Forum

Oct 12, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Hunting for Hazel Brooks

Part one of two on the long life and brief fame of a talented film noir starlet

Sep 19, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Myrtle Gonzalez at Cinecon

Forgotten Mexican-American Actress Makes a Comeback

Aug 27, 2024 • 

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Not So Sultry: Ella Raines

A birthday tribute, and a note about the Siren at Locarno 77 this weekend

Aug 6, 2024 • 

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July 2024

The Siren's Summer Books

Recommendations and future reads

Jul 15, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The Siren Regrets

...she's unable to appear this weekend

Jun 12, 2024 • 

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