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Vsevolod Pudovkin was a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein but, while the latter’s list of notable films continues well into the sound era, Pudovkin’s legacy consists almost entire of the three consecutive works he produced from 1926 to 1928, collected in...
In the present day, when the “Ealing comedies” are invoked, the movies that come first to mind for most of us are Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers. In...
When you go to an art museum, the main thing you’re there to do is look at the art, right? At least, that’s how I go to an art museum. Outside of the names of the work and its creator...
In an effort–a massively successful one or a complete failure depending on whom you ask and what sort of movies you value–to boost film production in the country, the Canadian government offered, from 1975 to 1982, to make any investment...
With its overheated, Southern Gothic dishevelment and its trio of desperate women, The Fugitive Kind (out now on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection) is undeniably some Tennessee Williams shit. But with a director, Sidney Lumet, who insists on treating it...
Richard Fleischer’s Trapped–out now on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley–begins in unorthodox fashion for a film noir. A mini-documentary explains to us the purpose of the United States Department of the Treasury, specifically its agents, known collectively as the Secret Service...
Before it even gets into its delightfully convoluted plot, 1949’s Passport to Pimlico, directed by Henry Cornelius and out now on Blu-ray from Film Movement Classics, establishes its neighborhood setting in the same way Spike Lee would 40 years later....
Jean-Luc Godard’s early ambition was in fact to be a novelist, and he took that same working method and applied it to cinema. As lead actor Michel Subor notes in the supplements on this disc, Godard uses the camera like...
After a string of box office failures in the 1980s, director John Carpenter was apparently eager to cut loose. Having delivered some of the best science fiction and horror films of all time to an indifferent filmgoing public, Carpenter decided...
With a name like The Titfield Thunderbolt, the director of A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and the same studio that made gems like The Ladykillers (1955) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), there’s the understandable feeling that this film really...
