Great news for fans of vintage Film Noir! Robert Siodmak’s PHANTOM LADY (1944) will be available on Blu-ray March 12th From Arrow Academy. From one of the masters of the film noir, Robert Siodmak (The ...
“The Phantom Lady” (1944) isn’t one of the better-known films by director Robert Siodmak, who is more famous for such film noir classics as “The Killers” and “Criss Cross,” both of which starred Burt ...
Does the Trump-Musk breakup resemble an ancient Greek myth or a Godzilla movie? Either way, mere mortals will likely get trampled. Warped Ways of Seeing “P.O.V.” How our ideas about point of view got ...
With Together Again, Jesse Hassenger looks at actors and directors who have worked together on at least three films, analyzing the nature of their collaborations. Director Robert Siodmak and actress ...
Phantom Lady (Universal) is the maiden production of Joan Harrison, who used to be Alfred Hitchcock’s Girl Friday and who now becomes one of the few women producers in Hollywood’s history.-Phantom ...
A few weeks ago, at 92Y Tribeca, the curator and writer Miriam Bale presented, as part of a superb series “Stuck on the Second Tier: Underknown Auteurs,” a great and rare 1944 film noir, “Phantom Lady ...
A vintage year for film noir, 1944 saw the release of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, Fritz Lang’s The Woman in the Window, Otto Preminger’s Laura, Edward Dmytryk’s Murder, My Sweet, and Robert ...
In a seedy New York bar, engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis), stood up by his cheating wife, offers to take to a musical revue a depressed woman (Fay Helm) wearing a fancy hat. She accompanies him ...
Elliot Lavine has made an art of programming movies. Others put together festivals and tributes. Lavine puts together festivals and tributes that are complete psychological experiences. Go on any ...
A nice girl marries a ne’er-do-well whose weakness turns him to crime. From a Somerset Maugham novel set in America, this sordid tale receives classy direction and good performances. A real change of ...