You can’t fault Dementia 13 for its ambition: a gothic, slow-burn horror film thick on atmosphere and dread. You can, however, fault director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Roger Corman for everything else: stilted dialogue, […]
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 […]
Thirty-one years before Rio Bravo, 20 before Red River, 12 before His Girl Friday, and 10 before Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks was just another director trying to make a name for himself in Hollywood. His earlier films […]
“We Catholics know that a priest cannot disclose the secret of the confessional, but the Protestants, the atheists, and the agnostics all say, ‘Ridiculous! No man would remain silent and sacrifice his life for such […]
Staff writer Nathanael Hood takes a look at the deeper cuts from legendary directors with the his column B-Roll. This week, Nathanael takes a look at John Ford’s THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1943). The year was 1945 and John […]
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