Here’s another truly brilliant tracking shot that also features a couple like we saw in our GoodFellas post. This time the legendary Orson Welles was behind the camera making his grand comeback with a low budget crime picture that he proceeded to transform into one of the greatest film noirs […]
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Today is the late great Robert Mitchum’s birthday (Born August 6, 1917) so we wanted to pay tribute with a special post about one of our favorite films from his career, the 1958 southern fried crime drama THUNDER ROAD. Mitchum plays Luke Doolin, a Korean War vet who returns to […]
Growing up, a young Martin Scorsese would goto see all kinds of movies with family and friends in New York City. We’ve all heard him mention the Golden Age studio classics he cites as being highly inspirational to his work such as The Red Shoes, Duel in The Sun and […]
Ever since first seeing Touch of Evil (1958) it has been one of my favorite films. It is often cited as one of the last examples of film noir but that statement is partially incorrect because the term, while largely associated with the 40s/50s hard boiled crime films is not […]