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Author Matthew Sorrento

Matthew Sorrento

Matthew Sorrento teaches film and media studies at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ and is Interview Editor of Film International, where he frequently contributes. He is the author of The New American Crime Film (McFarland, 2012) and directs the Reel East Film Festival

Elena and Her Men film review

A Star’s New Stage: Elena and Her Men (Elena et les Hommes)

Matthew Sorrento
June 2015
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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...

La Bête humaine: Unquiet Desperation

Matthew Sorrento
November 2013
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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...

Laura: Noir of Identity and Illusion

Matthew Sorrento
February 2013
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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...
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Scorsese by Ebert by Roger Ebert

Matthew Sorrento
July 2009
Book Reviews
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...

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