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With The Caine Mutiny, Humphrey Bogart continued his drift away from movie-star roles, playing a part in which his character … More

Oozing style and charm

In our trawl through Humphrey Bogart’s oeuvre we’ve been sticking to the best known movies—he acted in over seventy films. … More

Humphrey Bogart reputedly occupied something of a lonely place among his Hollywood peers—although he had his good friends, Louise Brooks, … More

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film that’s been lurking in my brain since childhood, having been on … More

Of the four films that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, Dark Passage is undoubtedly the most outlandish, in … More

Watching a film like The Big Sleep in 2020 it’s almost impossible to see past its mythology. This was a … More

Having recently watched the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty, a film whose production is apparently predicated on a chemistry between the … More

‘Here’s looking at you, kid’. ‘Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks … More

Technique is a weirdly invisible thing in film. Everything a director or an editor does is right there in front … More

We’ve been watching a lot of Coen Brothers films of late, which display so much love for the Golden Age … More