‘Are you by any chance a sad-eyed, innocent villain in pictures?’ / ‘Yes, I’m afraid I am’ (1) Peter Lorre: Face Maker by Sarah Thomas Todd Herzog September 2012 Book Reviews In the 1930s Charlie Chaplin referred to Peter Lorre as ‘the greatest living actor’ (p. 60). Fifty years later, Vincent Price claimed that Lorre was ‘not in any way a bad actor; it's just that Hollywood's creat...
The Newest New Wave: New Austrian Film edited by Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck Todd Herzog March 2012 Book Reviews Is there an Austrian National Cinema? The concept of national cinema has always been difficult to pin down. Especially in a country whose domestic market is as small and whose identity has been as fluid as A...
