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The Lady Vanishes Revisited
If I had not seen The Lady Vanishes at the age of seven, I might never have become a film critic. I was the fifth child of parents well into middle age: clearly an “accident,” as I was ten-years-plus younger than the other four. My siblings were
…Le plaisir: Life Is Movement
Max Ophuls acquired an enviable reputation both on-screen and behind the scenes.
Most actors, male or female, loved him, and if technicians complained of the amount of work necessitated by his remarkably fluent and complex long takes involving tracks…
The Furies: Mann of the Western
The year 1950 marked a turning point in Anthony Mann’s career, the moment when he passed from the series of brilliant film noir B movies that had established him to the westerns that made him a major figure.
Rebecca: The Two Mrs. de Winters
Rebecca marks the most decisive single step both in Hitchcock’s career and aesthetic evolution: the move to America, the first time working under (and intermittently struggling against) a powerful and dominating producer, the liberating extravaganc…
The Scarlet Empress
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