I figured out how to add a poll! It’s down there at the bottom of the sidebar. Building off of yesterday’s post, I was just curious to know how people see Lewton’s RKO series, now that 9 of the 11 are readily available (the two non-horror entries are still AWOL–although I am expecting to view [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Val Lewton’
Lewtonian Leanings?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged polls, Val Lewton on February 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Stick a Pitchfork in Her, She’s Donne
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emerson, Existentialism, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Hope Davis, Isabel Jewell, Jean Brooks, Kim Hunter, Lou Lubin, Lynch, Mark Robson, Mulholland Dr., Nihilism, Shadow of a Doubt, subjective relay, Suspicion, Teresa Wright, The Miracle Woman, The Seventh Victim, Val Lewton on February 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Val Lewton (and director Mark Robson)’s The Seventh Victim is a deeply divisive film. Extravagantly praised by some (although, to tell ya the truth, I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate this gently nihilistic slice of quotidian terror), it is just as often treated as a weak link in the Lewton series (generally by critics [...]