It’s something of a paradox that one of the greatest and most central works of film noir, a genre marked by its dark and often cynical worldview, becomes a kind of ecstatic parable about spiritual epiphany and moral regeneration in the hands of Nicholas Ray. On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ray’s eighth feature, is usually overshadowed… Read more »
It is nearly impossible to define the essence of Nicholas Ray’s 1958 masterpiece Wind Across the Everglades, at once a kind of Floridian swamp western, a mysterious parable about the richness of the natural world, as well as an existential grudge match waged between an environmentalist and a bird poacher (Christopher Plummer and the powerful… Read more »