A corpse drifts to the bottom of a river in The Night of the Hunter Chris Forrester considers the powerful legacy of 1955’s The Night of the Hunter, a nightmare-fueled noir with far-reaching iconography and themes. There are films you can almost see without seeing. Famous images, lines of dialogue, and plot points from films… Read more »
“It’s one thing to learn to watch movies ‘professionally,’ but it is another to live with those movies that watched us grow up and saw us — prematurely hostage to our coming biographies — already entangled in the snare of our history.” — Serge Daney (1992) Literary depictions of the experience of childhood tend to… Read more »
If I had to describe The Night of the Hunter (1955) in one word, it would be singular. There is simply no other film like it. It bears traces of influence from several different film movements and belongs to several genres, and it would go on to influence great films and filmmakers. But as a… Read more »