I don’t like to say a film has been ‘rediscovered,’ it always makes me wonder who found the film in the first place and then who lost it. [...]
April 30, 2019
Tonka of the Gallows – An Unearthed Treasure
A Pre-Code Sea Wolf?
A pre-Code version of The Sea Wolf? What more could my cold-but-still-beating heart of darkness desire? MoMA gave me this wish this week when they screened [...]
March 8, 2019
Tony Erdmann Takes on The Nutty Professor
A prevalent cultural stereotype (perhaps less so now than a generation ago) is that since Germanic people have a limited sense of humor, they [...]
February 28, 2019
Hollow Triumph AKA The Scar (1948)
The Defendant: Hollow Triumph AKA The Scar (1948) Hollow Triumph AKA The Scar, starring Paul Henreid and directed by Hungarian-born Steve Sekely. Henreid [...]
February 17, 2019