Melville’s should be praised for his spare screenwriting, atmospheric direction, superlative mise-en-scene, and coaxing one of Delon’s quietest and multi-nuanced performances.

The Life of Chuck is, rather than straight-out horror, a story of human mortality presented as a strange, surrealist comedy.

Slanted follows Joan Huang, a senior in high school who undergoes experimental racial transformation to become white and win Prom Queen.

His Brother’s Wife was the first of three films starring Stanwyck and Robert Taylor; the couple married in 1939 (they divorced in 1952)