If it may please the court: The Case of Dark Passage, a 1947 crime drama, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It was the [...]
February 22, 2019
Dark Passage – Noir or not?
The Sacred and the Profane: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
It was only a few minutes into watching Cold War when I started to fully recognize what I was seeing on the screen – the scene composition, [...]
February 18, 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
Judge Noir Decides
As ‘Judgenoir’ I make fatalistic, cynical decisions whether or not a movie is really ‘film noir’ It’s a [...]
February 6, 2019
Dracula’s Corner – Enter freely and of your own will…
Welcome everyone – this part of the website will be about all things Dracula – the novel, the movies, and everything in between. The count was [...]
February 6, 2019
Ring Theory
The effects of variable ring placement on audience perception of character predictability A scientific paper by Lokke Heiss ABSTRACT The presence [...]
November 29, 2018
Too Much Johnson Is Never Enough Orson: The ‘Lost Film’ of Orson Welles
One of the highlights of last fall’s silent film festival in Pordenone, Italy was the premier of Orson Welles’s ‘lost’ 1938 film, ‘Too Much Johnson.’ A [...]
February 13, 2014
Roger and Me: An Almost Perfect London Walk
Roger and Me: An Almost Perfect London Walk Roger Ebert’s death on April 4, 2013 has produced—for his vocation—a degree of sympathy and [...]
May 6, 2013
Wonderful Life: Exploring the Vienna Trades
In my last blog, I detailed my trips to Hungary in my attempt to learn more about the The Death of Drakula, the first film in which Dracula was used as a [...]
February 11, 2013