The famous crane shot from Orson Welles’ 1958 film “Touch of Evil”. Touch of Evil is a stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. The movie is a 1958 American film noir crime thriller film, written and directed by Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the […]
Read moreJean-Luc Godard’s scathing late-sixties satire is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a petit-bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece single take of an endless traffic jam, Weekend is a surreally funny and deeply […]
Read moreIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James’s 1992 novel of the same […]
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