There’s a particularly fiendish bit of Hitchcockian screw-tightening in the middle of Double Indemnity: when insurance salesman Walter Neff climbs into the getaway car and his accomplice, Phyllis Dietrichson, can’t get […]
“Everything you hate.” There are so many avenues for writing about this film that it’s easy to become paralyzed trying to choose one. Its reputation precedes it, to put things […]
These two films make fascinating companions, mostly for their similarities but for a few differences too. The differences are plain to see — a black-and-white American film about a businessman’s […]
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