Month: February 2023

Garret Brown, inventor of the Steadicam, fielded questions about his career in the movies for nearly an hour tonight at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. He spoke following a sold-out screening of Blow Out (1981), director Brian De Palma’s political crime thriller.  After narrating a brief reel of Steadicam work from a variety of films, […]

Even if you’re not a film noir fan, Woman on the Run (1950) deserves your attention. Yes, director Norman Foster’s movie is a mystery played out in a shadowy world of hardened crooks, hard-nosed detectives, and some eccentric characters. And it has an existential concern, as film noir movies often do. But Woman on the […]