Above: a publicity still of Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan in Born to Be Bad (1950). Courtesy Photofest/Film Forum. Among the many things the American interpretation of la politique des auteurs did was
Nicholas Ray. Did Hollywood produce any other figure in whom inhered the very ethos of the struggling Artist against the System? Well, there was certainly Orson Welles. But Ray? The case of Ray
While Nicholas Ray was directing the bloated and misbegotten epic 55 Days at Peking, he had a dream that if he made the film, he would never complete another feature. The dream turned out to be true
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
The Lusty Men plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 5th. *** Homes for Strangers: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray is an on-going series of articles covering
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