He found commercial and critical success in the late forties directing Susan Hayward in two of her breakthrough performances: Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947), her first Oscar nomination, and the commercial hit Tulsa (1949).

July 16, 2022 Type Intellectually inferior, but sexually unattractive bespectacled woman, with insight inti what remains hidden or unknown t others. Shadow: sister of Young Charlie, haughty Spellbound: Ingrid Bergman, the bespectacled woman who knows too much Strangers on Train: Ruth Roman’s sister (played by H’s daughter) Vertigo: Midge, Scottie’s ex-fiancee Wrong Man: bank teller […]

July 10, 2022 The key to H’s films is less  suspense than sexuality. His suspense always carries a sexual charge in way that are obvious or esoteric. Sexual relationship in his work are based on power, obsession with power and dread of impotence Shadow of Doubts: its sexuality that cracks the family apart. In Amer […]

Prince of Tides landed a best picture nom, but the Academy voters denied Streisand a directing nomination.

Sergei Loznitsa (Belarusian, born September 5, 1964) is a Ukrainian director known for his documentary as well as dramatic films. Maidan had its world premiere in a special screening at Cannes in May 2014, a record of the 2013–14 popular protests in Kyiv and their violent suppression. His latest documentary is Babi Yar. Context, created […]