In his 1970 essay Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir, Raymond Durgnat suggests that the genre’s most common topics developed as a method of plausible deniability. As the Red Scare hotted up, left-leaning directors could address corruption in, say, prisons or boxing and have it stand as a microcosm […]
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Sullivan’s Travels (1941) One of the Greatest Comedies of all time (Review)
During Hollywood’s golden era, the industry was anchored by studios and producers, compared to now the director has become the lead creative talent on any given movie, and whenever a production goes awry an overeager producer is usually to blame. All the same, a few directors carved out names for […]