Ellis R Dungan

An American cinematographer, born in Ohio on May 11, 1909, an alumnus of University of Southern California’s first batch of …

When Hitchcock Tried To Go Surreal

While Spellbound (1945) was one of Alfred Hitchcock’s successful films, it hasn’t held up too well with time even if …

Gun Crazy: The Unshown Heist

Loosely based on the Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows legend, Gun Crazy (1950), directed by Joseph H Lewis , is one …

Blonde

Blonde, directed by Andrew Dominik and streaming now on Netflix, is just the kind of film that makes you feel …

Borderliner

As per Wikipedia, ‘Nordic Noir’ is very basically defined as a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police …

Classical Hollywood and His Girl Friday: An Analysis

“… the principles which Hollywood claims as its own rely on notions of decorum, proportion, formal harmony, respect for tradition, …

Wedding Season

Wedding Season, helmed by Tom Dey and streaming on Netflix, is a romcom set amongst the Indian diaspora based in …

Screenplay by Raymond Chandler

Enough has been written about perhaps the greatest mystery writer of all time, Raymond Chandler. Born on July 23, 1888, …

Short Takes: 3 By Tourneur

Director Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977) will always be remembered for helming one of the greatest film noirs of all time, Out …

Faces Places

What happens when the 88-year young prima donna of the French New Wave, filmmaker Agnes Varda, meets and ventures upon …