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Ossessione (1943)

Director Luchino Visconti’s first film Ossessione (1943) is considered an extremely important movie in the history of Italian and world cinema. An adaptation of James M. Cain’s noir-ish crime novel about a young wife of an inn-keeper who cheats on her older husband with a handsome drifter The Postman Always Rings Twice (which was also […]

The Night Of The Hunter (1955)

That venerable actor Charles Laughton directed only one movie, The Night Of The Hunter (1955) but that movie has become a classic and its stature grows every year. Laughton, with the help of his cinematographer Stanley Cortez, crafted a nightmarish modern fairy-tale that married the Brothers Grimm with German Expressionism to create unforgettable images which […]