Welles used multiple long takes in the film as a cheat to have as much control over the final edit as possible, after his ...

This is one of those strange movies where the stars happened to align, even if in the form of a corpse among the constellations. Punk noir 20 years before Elvis Costello’s “Watching the ...

Then there are films like On the Waterfront or Touch of Evil that utilize specific stylistic elements of the gangster film to create a new kind of crime classic. With such a wide range of gangster ...

Narcotics officer Shaolun (Tony Leung Ka Fai), in order to bring down the local drug kingpin King (Michael Wong), forces a female street thug with an equally sketchy past, Coco (Rosamund Kwan) to ...