There is a particular strangeness to living inside a culture that talks to itself through film dialogue. An American will tell you something is “a…
A Dutch still life looks, at first glance, like a boast. Polished silver, a half-peeled lemon, a watch on a silk ribbon, a glass of…
By Sara Bright Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, working as The Archers, transformed British cinema from documentary realism into a medium of feverish psychological opera.…