Dragonwyck gets a UK Blu-ray premiere release
The directorial debut of the Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Suddenly, Last Summer), Dragonwyck is a glorious melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama, and is now making its UK Continue Reading
Laura (1944) | Still the greatest noir of them all!
Nominated for four Oscars and winning one, this is the ultimate noir. Dark and mysterious, stylishly wicked and enticingly captivating, 1944’s Laura is a glamorous murder mystery and a tangled Continue Reading
Dragonwyck (1946) | Time to bow down to Vincent Price’s Hudson Valley Bluebeard
On a gloomy estate in New York’s Hudson Valley in 1844, feudal Dutchman Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), cruelly lords it over his tenants. Married to Johanna (Vivienne Osborne), whom Continue Reading
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | A masterpiece of post war American cinema
‘A “film noir in colour” (per Martin Scorsese) and a masterpiece of post-World War II American cinema… director John M Stahl’s gaze remains spare and precise, very Japanese in effect, Continue Reading