Booklets

Certainly it is Lugosi's performance, and the cinematography of Karl Freund, that make Tod Browning's film such an influential Hollywood picture.

Aside from Vigo, Rossellini is the only filmmaker who has filmed adolescence without sentimentality, and The 400 Blows owes a great deal to his Germany Year Zero

Lubitsch’s masterpiece Trouble in Paradise is the best example of pre-code Hollywood which consisted of adult themes and sexual innuendo beneath its veneer of social awareness

The Lady Eve (1941), the third of Preston Sturges’ seven Hollywood masterpieces, is essentially about transforming the gaze of love to Hollywood’s discourse on entertainment as a form of seduction. 

Jack Conway’s highly successful adaptation of Dickens’ classic text transposes the author’s descriptive, character driven style, to the event based logic of the Hollywood narrative.

The more you consider Sunrise the deeper it becomes -- not because the story grows any more subtle, but because you realize the real subject is the horror beneath the...