Directed by:
Kent JonesCast:
Martin Scorsese, Elias Koteas, Roger Corman, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, Alla Nazimova, Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Skelton Knaggs (a.f.), Lou Lubin (a.f.)Plots(1)
A peerless film portrait of a major if under-recognized Hollywood moviemaker, "Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows" elegantly encompasses the work and career of a producer who doggedly transcended the seeming limitations of B-movie production and horror-genre scripts and made a unique body of work in American cinema. As conceived by writer-director and film critic Kent Jones, the documentary is paced like a Lewton film and allows viewers a vivid sense of what his movies feel and sound like. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Martin Scorsese
USA
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Elias Koteas
Canada
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Gattaca (1997)
Roger Corman
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
The Funeral (1984)
Occult (2009)
Jacques Tourneur
France
Best movies:
Love (1927)
Robert Wise
USA
Best movies:
The Stupids (1996)
Alla Nazimova
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Camille (1921)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Salomé (1923)
Simone Simon
France
Best movies:
La Ronde (1950)
La Bete humaine (1938)
Le Plaisir (1952)
Jack Holt
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
San Francisco (1936)
Joan the Woman (1916)
Skelton Knaggs (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
The Lodger (1944)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Night and Day (1946)
Lou Lubin (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)