Last Saturday, as part of “Tales from The New Yorker,” a two-week program at Film Forum that celebrates the magazine’s centenary with movies that have a connection to its writers and their work, I ...

Nicholas Ray was better at beginnings than endings. His very first film, They Live by Night (1948), opens—after a brief prologue which looks tacked on by the studio—with a startling aerial shot, taken ...

The Western is the prime political genre, and Nicholas Ray’s “Johnny Guitar,” from 1954, is one of the greatest Westerns, but its political ideas are hardly the source of its enduring—and ...

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