Wolf Man, Dracula and the beasts that gave birth to cinematic horror | David Thomson on Universal and its stars.
Orson Welles: The most glorious film failure of them all | David Thomson on why Welles still fascinates.
Murder most stylish | David Thomson on directorial style. Great piece.
Shooting from the hip
| David Thomson on ‘jazz film’.
Animal Instinct: Raging Bull
David Thomson revisits Scorsese’s masterpiece.
Another one bites the dust… What are the odds against two of the last surviving big names of cinema expiring in the same week? I could never get fully behind Antonioni the way I could with Bergman, I didn’t think much of the Neo-Realist school that Antonioni began as a part of and his later [...]
Welles: Among those whom I would call “younger generation” Kubrick appears to me to be a giant.
Interviewer: But, for example, The Killing was more or less a copy of The Ashphalt Jungle?
Welles: Yes, but The Killing was better. The problem of imitation leaves me indifferent, above all if the imitator succeeds in surpassing the model… [...]
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