USA,
2007, 77 min
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)
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