Darkness falls at the crossroads and near all is silent. Milky fog opaques the inky blackness pierced by an occasional light. In a mechanics shop a worker sniffs a pinch of cocaine hidden in a […]
Filip Mosz never intended to become a filmmaker. He only bought that damned 8mm movie camera to film his newborn daughter. Yet his enthusiasm bubbled over at the realization that he could capture time, moments, […]
There is shockingly little information available on John Ford’s Men Without Women (1930). The few summaries of the film available on most websites regurgitate the same plot points and pieces of IMDB trivia. Even Joseph […]
“Genius – is to make a critic change his mind.” It’s perhaps fitting that the first shot of Ingmar Bergman’s All These Women consists of a single static take of the inside of an opulent […]
The true terror behind Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (1964) isn’t that things went wrong, it’s that they went right. True, a mechanical error sent the signal for American flight crews to drop nuclear bombs on […]
Contrary to popular belief, most Westerns are not about cowboys—but gunslingers, lawmen and outlaws. Comparatively few actually focus on cowboys. Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948) shines brightest among this minority. But even then the cowboys […]
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