It’s one of the stranger partnerships in cinema history – the fiery, motor-mouthed, New York-based Italian-American filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the patrician English director, Michael Powell. open image in gallery Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell on the set of ‘The Red Shoes’ The two men existed in a world a very long way removed from that of Scorsese. open image …
The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made Alamy Film noir The Big Sleep was released 75 years ago. All these decades later, the film's judgemental Wikipedia entry tuts that it "is impossible to follow", and is celebrated by "movie-star aficionados" only because "they consider the Bogart-Bacall appearances more important than a well-told story". "The notable thing about The …
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