The Movie Book

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 99 The movie’s title is taken from a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Kind hearts are more than c ...

100 THE WORLD DOESN’T MAKE ANY HEROES OUTSIDE OF YOUR STORIES THE THIRD MAN / 1949 C arol Reed’s 1949 film noir The Third Man ca ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 101 The screenplay was developed by novelist Graham Greene from his own novella. It came from a ...

102 THE THIRD MAN As ever-growing teams of police chase Lime through the sewers, only the running water and the cops’ echoing ca ...

A GOLDEN AGE IN BLACK AND WHITE 103 Carol Reed Director Born in London in 1906, Carol Reed was the son of the famous Shakespeare ...

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106 T his chapter covers the shortest time period of any in the book—the 10 years between 1950 and 1959. Yet in that one decade ...

107 young film critics from the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma expounded a whole new way of looking at movies. To them, movies deser ...

WE ALL WANT TO FORGET SOMETHING SO WE TELL STORIES RASHOMON / 1950 ...

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110 RASHOMON A kira Kurosawa’s Rashomon is a thriller that revolves around two possible crimes that take place in a secluded gla ...

FEAR AND WONDER 111 Honma) shows up and channels the spirit of the dead samurai, who gives his version of events. Finally, the w ...

112 RASHOMON on camera, divides the present from the past, which is sun-dappled in flashbacks. The forbidding gate symbolizes th ...

FEAR AND WONDER 113 sleight-of-hand potboiler plots of The Usual Suspects (1995) and Gone Girl (2014). However, rarely do the im ...

114 I AM BIG. IT’S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL SUNSET BOULEVARD / 1950 A t one point in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, faded s ...

FEAR AND WONDER 115 What else to watch: A Star is Born (1937) ■ All About Eve (1950, p.332) ■ Some Like It Hot (1959, pp.148–49) ...

116 I HAVE ALWAYS RELIED ON THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE / 1951 T here isn’t much kindness on display in A ...

FEAR AND WONDER 117 What else to watch: A Place in the Sun (1951) ■ The Wild One (1953) ■ Rebel Without a Cause (1955, p.131) ■ ...

118 U pon its release, The Night of the Hunter was such a critical and commercial failure that actor-turned-director Charles Lau ...