Why The Thomas Crown Affair Is a Masterpiece of Surrealism
The art heist film, which multiplies Maigrittes and melts Monets, plays with doubling, warping, and looping back, becoming a Surrealist artwork all on its own
By Sabina Stent | April 23, 2021
Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why Rear Window Remains the Director's Definitive Film
Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In Rear Window, he found a new vision.
By Edward White | April 13, 2021
Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?
Spanish avengers, cross-continent serial killers, and a giant ocean liner carrying a locked-door mystery.
By Dwyer Murphy | April 2, 2021
Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s Victim
This classic noir, starring icon Dirk Bogarde, uses the conventions of melodrama and detective cinema to explore a persisting crime: the extortion of queer men
By Victoria Wiet | April 1, 2021
