Diary of a Lost Girl, the second of Georg Wilhelm Pabsts productive collaborations with Louise Brooks, is a potent and gorgeously stylized depiction of an innocent young womans destruction at the han...
Douglas Sirk was a master of the lurid Hollywood melodrama, transcending often outrageous and contrived material with the sheer force of the emotion and the visual rigor that he invested in these sto...
Go West is one of Buster Keatons more low-key films, but also one of his strangest, focusing on a gently sentimental romance between a man and a cow. Keaton plays an out-of-luck drifter, tellingly na...
Alfred Hitchcocks Under Capricorn is one of the directors more divisive films, but it certainly doesnt deserve its unflattering reputation. This lavish period melodrama, set in 1800s Australia, might...
I Take These Truths is one of Stan Brakhages painted shorts, and indeed it offers up a near-exhaustive catalog of the many styles and techniques associated with his hand-painted work. The film is cha...
François Truffaut had, from his very first feature, his famous debut The 400 Blows, been very interested in childhood and the experiences of a child in a world governed by adult rules. The directors ...
La fille de leau was Jean Renoirs first feature, the melodramatic story of young Gudule (Renoirs then-wife Catherine Hessling), whose father dies, her uncle (Pierre Lestringuez) abuses and attempts t...
Modern Times was the last of Charles Chaplins "silent" movies, made after the silent era was over for everyone else, with pretty much only Chaplin hanging on — and Chaplin only able to hang o...
Jason Bellamy and I have posted the latest of our Conversations at The House Next Door. This time around, weve tackled Michael Haneke, whose newest film Amour is currently showing at Cannes; we haven...
Marlene Dietrichs performance as the burlesque singer Lola Lola is one of the most iconic screen incarnations of the dangerous woman who lures a man to his destruction. This role in The Blue Angel wa...
[This post is one last late contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which ran from May 13-18. This year, hosts Marilyn Ferdinand, Farran Smith Nehme and Roderi...
[This post is a contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running from May 13-18. This year, hosts Marilyn Ferdinand, Farran Smith Nehme and Roderi...
Taking a quick break from this weeks worthy Film Preservation blogathon and its celebration of Alfred Hitchcock, I have authored a guest post for Jeremy Richeys great blog Fascination: The Jean Rolli...
[This post is an early contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running, starting tomorrow, from May 13-18. This year, hosts Marilyn Ferdinand, Fa...
[This post is an early contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be officially running from May 13-18. This year, hosts Marilyn Ferdinand, Farran Smit...
John Fords Westerns consistently present the mythology of the Old West at its best, romanticizing and glorifying the westward expansion. This is true even very early on in his career. His 1926 silent...
One pretty much knows what one is in for with a film titled The Nude Vampire, and Jean Rollins second feature (his first in color) certainly delivers on the promise of stiff acting, absurd plotting, ...
Joseph Loseys The Big Night is a coming of age tale in the guise of a noir, a thiller thats ostensibly about revenge but is actually about a teens desperate struggle for sexual and emotional maturity...
Though Maurice Pialat began making short films and documentaries in 1951, at the age of 26, it wasnt until 1968 that he completed his first feature, Lenfance nue. The years before this were a long pe...
City Lights was an anachronism when it first appeared, a new silent production from Charles Chaplin, one of the masters of silent comedy, at a time when the rest of Hollywood was eagerly embracing th...
The Bigamist marked the end of Ida Lupinos tenure as a Hollywood feature director; from here shed move into directing for television, and wouldnt make another feature until 1966. Its an unconventiona...
Fritz Lang followed The Woman in the Window by reuniting the same cast — Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea — for a second noir, Scarlet Street, a remake of Jean Renoirs classic La Chien...
Made under the heavy influence of German Expressionism and especially the recently emigrated F.W. Murnau, John Fords Four Sons represents one great director being deeply affected by the work of anoth...
Editing is the key to the cinema of Alain Resnais, the crux of his work. Through the cut, the filmmaker controls the flow of space and time, controlling whats seen and not seen, where a scene starts ...
The early work of a director is often an instructive glimpse into the development of the sensibility that would go on to inform his or her mature works, suggesting the auteurs concerns and style in n...
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