The Lusty Men and The True Story of Jesse James play as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 5th. *** The West is an idea that is ripe for the kind of explorations
Top: Hot Blood. Above: Bitter Victory. Hot Blood and Bitter Victory play as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 4th. *** Bigger than Life tends to feel
Rebel Without a Cause plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum from July 31st-August 3rd. *** What does he know about Man alone? We’re at Ground Zero. Nicholas
Wind Across the Everglades played as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on July 30th. *** Wind Across the Everglades (1958) is necessarily incomplete. This has everything
Knock on Any Door plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on July 29th & 30th. *** Almost all of Nicholas Ray’s films are built around identification with
They Live by Night plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on July 29th & 30th. *** From the very first image of his very first film, Nicholas Ray announced
A Woman’s Secret and On Dangerous Ground play as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on July 28th. *** A Woman’s Secret (1949) and On Dangerous Ground (1952) typify
Born to Be Bad plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective on July 27th. *** Born to Be Bad (1950) is the bitchier, far less-well-behaved sister of All about Eve, which just so happened to
Johnny Guitar plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on July 26th & 27th. *** "I searched for you in every man I met." "You got nothin’ to tell me ‘cause
Bigger than Life plays as part of a 15-film series at New York’s Film Forum on July 24th & 25th. *** In a Lonely Place and Bigger than Life (1956) are the only two movies in Nicholas Ray’s body
Above: Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart. I was born when she kissed me, I died when she left me, I lived a few weeks when she loved me. In a Lonely Place (1950) is a film noir that doesn’t care about
Poetry of the Mystic High school peer of Joseph Losey. Student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Protégé of Elia Kazan. One-time pal of Manny Farber. Radio propagandist for the OSS. Director of some of the strangest