Author Matthew Sorrento

It’s a moment of beauty disrupted by thundering, militaristic noise: Elena (Ingrid Bergman), a late-19th-century Polish princess, sits at a piano while her lover, a composer, tries to drown out the festive soun...

Though canonised as one of the cinema’s greatest directors, Jean Renoir was preeminently a master of capturing energy. He depicts humanity rumbling with life in La Grand illusion (1937)’s prison camp, in the ch...

In Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944), the murder of Tom Powers’ character is built up through the two lovers/killers’ plans. And yet the scheme could be all talk if it weren’t for the opening confession of...

As the internet age opened up a cosmos’ worth of publication room, film writing grew as if every solar system deserved its own life-form. Many old-time critics lament the net as the demise of criticism, althoug...