Plenty of Hitchcock fans have never seen The Wrong Man. That is somewhat understandable, given the iconic status of its chronological neighbors in the filmography (The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho), but it is also a shame. With a brooding and expressive film noir visual style, memorable performances from Henry Fonda and Vera Miles, and a moving, true story which sets it apart from Hitchcock's other films, we would nominate it as the great director's most underrated work.
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Essential Cinema: The Wrong Man
Movie Roundup: Early May Edition
There's a whole lot of movie events happening so we do our best to round up the cream of the crop.
A Chicago Take on a Single-Take Movie
Hitchcock got the ball rolling. Orson Welles experimented with it too. But it wasn't until Russian Ark (and the advent of digital video, with its high-capacity recording capability) that an audacious technical challenge was satisfyingly fulfilled: shoot an entire feature-length film in a single take. Aleksandr Sokurov's surreal voyage through St. Petersburg's Hermitage showed exactly what the form is capable of and received nearly universal critical plaudits.
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