It is tempting to compare Carol Reed with Vittorio De Sica. They had both been making films for some time until they, right after the end of...

I spent two days in Canterbury a couple of years ago, partly because of my love for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film  A Cant...

The terror of darkness.  The Bad and the Beautiful  (1952). A woman and her sexual fantasy. The Pirate  (1948). Film noir as ballet....

A special post today because the Hasse Ekman retrospective at MoMA is now over, and I am overwhelmed by the response it got. Sold-out screen...

All the writings of W.G. Sebald are essential, and in particular the astonishing Austerlitz . Today however I will quote from Vertigo, first...