Touch of Evil

Destin 2022-03-25 09:01:08

In the 1950s and 1960s, in a shabby, desolate town on the border between the United States and Mexico, the town's police chief, Quinlan, is a corrupt official who uses his own judgment to solve cases and catch criminals. In order to allow the court to admit that her judgment was correct, Quinlan...

Blake 2022-03-25 09:01:08

Orson Welles' bastardized Film-Noir has only attained its quasi-full-fledged Wellesian treatment in 1998 (apropos of his 58-page memo to the head of Universal upon the film's chopped and re-shot original form), four decades after its release , credited to the meticulous re-editing endeavor led by...

Kaleigh 2022-03-21 09:01:54

Theorists call it the final chapter of film noir. After the shocking long shot of the opening, the photography becomes very weak, with a lot of low elevation and horizontal angle shots mixed with the desired effect and even a little incongruous. Although the whole film maintains a mysterious tone of lighting, it does not really excavate the real sense of Xiao Su from the social environment and the depth of the characters, and it is even a bit cheap. 【4/10】

Celestine 2021-12-07 08:01:37

Wells’ most extraordinary genre film work, and who would have thought that Marlene Dietrich’s only four short films in one night would create the greatest role of her career? Goodbye Tana. Adios!