Fritz Lang, that great Teutonic genius, is usually characterized by critics and historians as having not one, but two careers. The general consensus seems to suggest that his prewar period working in the German film […]
Chances are you’ve heard one of Miklós Rózsa’s famed musical scores. After all, he is a three-time Academy Award winning composer for his work on the films Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947), and Ben […]
Need help figuring out what to watch this week on Warner Archive Instant? The Retro Set has you covered with our must watch Warner Archive picks! Each week, we select a small handful of must watch titles […]
Need help figuring out what to watch this week on Warner Archive Instant? The Black Maria has you covered. Each week, we pick a small handful of must watch titles from the Warner Archive Instant […]
In honor of Marilyn Monroe’s birthday today, The Retro Set takes a look back at one of her most under-appreciated performances: Don’t Bother to Knock from 1952. Perhaps one of the many reasons I have such […]
In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]
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