This Quarter in Film History

Napoléon vu par Abel Gance has had as many comebacks as the conqueror it portrayed, yet has always remained Waterloo-proof. […]

High Noon has often been interpreted as an anti-McCarthy era story of mass cowardice when confronted by evil. It is a moot point now because the story has multiple meanings as a personal epiphany. […]

‘The Manchurian Candidate’ reveals how the two sides of extremism can destroy centrist politics. […]

Though not well known, Edwin S. Porter should be regarded as the father of film editing because the basic principles of the craft did not exist before he directed and edited ‘The Life of an American Fireman’. […]

Though Leni Riefenstahl always denied she was a Nazi propagandist. Two recent biographies have unearthed damning evidence that she was a narcissist Nazi diva who legitimized the Nazi ideals of force and physical beauty through the power of her images. […]

 ‘Dr. T’ reveals––as few others of its era did––the dysfunctional cracks in the post-war little box subdivisions that exploded in the 1960s […]