Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in Angel Face Frank Jessup : Robert Mitchum Diane Tremayne : Jean Simmons Mary Wilton : Mona Freeman...

Ana Milosavljevic in Innocence Unprotected Oh, where to start? Perhaps by figuring out exactly what Dusan Makavejev's Innocence Unpr...

Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street is based on the same novel by Georges de la Fouchardière that Jean Renoir had adapted for his 1931 film t...

Chantal Akerman in Je Tu Il Elle Beyond our obvious physical needs, we human beings have needs that some would call spiritual. Among the...

Imagine The Woman on the Beach if Jean Renoir had made it in France with, say, Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe, and Jean Gabin, and perha...

In eighth-century Japan, a man (Toshiro Mifune) and his wife (Ayako Wakao) are mourning the death of their 5-year-old daughter, Kaya. They...

It's fun sometimes to go back and read the reviews Bosley Crowther wrote for the New York Times, panning films that are now regarded a...

Sometimes, to appreciate how good a film is you have to imagine how bad it could have been. The conventional way of telling a story is beg...

Edmund Gwenn, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Natalie Paley, and Brian Aherne in Sylvia Scarlett Sylvia Scarlett : Katharine Hepburn J...

The 39 Steps , Alfred Hitchcock's first great film, contains an object lesson in how to end a movie, a topic I raised in passing when ...