Blast of Silence in The New York Times
This week, Dave Kehr's "New DVDs" column in The New York Times spotlights Allen Baron's New York noir: "Blast of Silence, coming out Tuesday in a very good edition from the Criterion Collection, stands out even in this field for its elemental style and relentlessly bleak vision.... The studiously gray, unglamorous views of 1961 Manhattan...are worth the price of admission alone. Here's what was being left out of those Madison Avenue melodramas and Park Avenue romances of the period."
