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April 10, 2018
Notorious is a masterclass from Alfred Hitchcock in crafting three-dimensional villains by giving them logical needs and recognizable conflicts. Read…
December 6, 2017
Gangster Land director Timothy Woodward, Jr. walks through how he recreated 1920s Chicago, shot split-screen scenes with tommy guns, and…
October 13, 2017
Actress and humanitarian Marsha Hunt looks back on her work in classics like Raw Deal and Pride and Prejudice, landing…
September 20, 2016
Criterion Crash Course, our series on new Criterion Collection titles, draws moviemaking lessons from the Coen Brothers' directorial debut, Blood…
August 31, 2016
Explore how to write cogent and complex film noir with The Nice Guys, The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski…
June 29, 2016
Mark A. Vieira’s Into The Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 offers an unprecedented portal into Hollywood’s golden…
May 20, 2016
Back in the fall of 2010, we began production on a black and white film noir comedy feature that would…
December 2, 1995
Prior to the days when movies were amalgams of past movies, the clash between genre and auteur, between the classic…