“The Third Man” is the cinematic definition of they don’t make them like they used to. Set in post-world War II Vienna — then split into four sections by the occupied Allied forces — Carol Reed’s ...

Let’s harken back to a time when DVDs were arranged on the rental rack spine side out and alphabetically by title. One never knew what unknown riches were just a lateral scan of the eye away when ...

When passing judgment on their own work, filmmakers seldom find themselves in agreement with the critical consensus. For example, Orson Welles insisted that his best film was not “Citizen Kane” but ...

The Joseph Cotten Show is an American anthology series series hosted by and occasionally starring Joseph Cotten. The series, which first aired on NBC, aired 31 episodes from September 14, 1956, to ...

Few films are as striking to look at or listen to as the British film noir “The Third Man.” Its shadow-soaked black-and-white palette, artfully askew camera angles and elaborately expressive editing ...

Frankfurt, West Germany, January 1955: Director Alfred Hitchcock is greeted by actor Joseph Cotten at the Rhein-Maine airport. Cotten starred in Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943), and in 1955 was ...

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