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 …