Robin Wood

If I had not seen The Lady Vanishes at the age of seven, I might never have become a film critic. I was the fifth child of parents well into middle age: clearly an “accident,” as I was ten-years-plus younger than the other four. My siblings were

Max Ophuls’s 1952 comedy celebrates existence by presenting a world full of unresolvable contradictions.

The year 1950 marked a turning point in Anthony Mann’s career, the moment when he passed from the series of brilliant film noir B movies that had established him to the westerns that made him a major figure.

Alfred Hitchcock’s first film in Hollywood is his earliest definitive statement on male domination and female subjugation.

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