Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate is a scrupulously authentic film about a real World War II battle,...
Showing posts with label '1950s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label '1950s. Show all posts
The Law
Jules Dassin's The Law is a very strange, disjointed movie. A Franco-Italian co-production, set in a small Italian fishing village and s...
The Tales of Hoffmann
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's version of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann is a brightly colored, theatrical...
Othello (1952)
Orson Welles' Othello was the director's second adaptation of a Shakespeare play, following up his moody, fog-clouded Macbeth. Where...
Four Agnès Varda shorts, 1957-1968
In Ô Saisons, Ô Châteaux, Agnès Varda sets out to document and discourse upon the architecture of various Renaissance-era castles, but her p...
Image in the Snow/The Plague Summer/The Voices
Image in the Snow is Willard Maas' moody, densely symbolic examination of a young man's journey through an increasingly grim and dil...
Magnificent Obsession
Douglas Sirk was a master of the lurid Hollywood melodrama, transcending often outrageous and contrived material with the sheer force of the...
The Big Night
Joseph Losey's The Big Night is a coming of age tale in the guise of a noir, a thiller that's ostensibly about revenge but is actual...