Nick’s Movies Blaine Allan September 2013 Feature Articles Jonathan Rosenbaum recently offered some useful, brief observations on two versions of Nicholas Ray’s last film, a collaboration with Wim Wenders. (1) A third (of sorts) also circulated, and considering the var...
To the Viewer: On Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again Susan Ray March 2013 Feature Articles It’s taken almost four decades to bring you Nick’s last full-length film We Can’t Go Home Again, and not for lack of trying. Why so long? We couldn’t find the funds. We didn’t need much compared to what most mo...
Old Saint Nick: We Can’t Go Home Again and Don’t Expect Too Much Blaine Allan July 2012 2012 MIFF Dossier Commemorating Nicholas Ray in his centenary year, in 2011 his last feature-length motion picture, We Can’t Go Home Again (1973-), started doing laps around the festival circuit, sometimes accompanied by Don’t E...
Twentieth Century Prodigal Son: Nicholas Ray – The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan Blaine Allan December 2011 Book Reviews In Bigger Than Life (1956) schoolteacher Ed Avery fragments in the broken medicine-cabinet mirror that his wife Lou furiously slams shut when in a pharmaceutically induced delusion he imperiously gives her an o...
Party Girl Steven Rybin June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film The disappointments of adulthood permeate Nicholas Ray’s gangland fable Party Girl, the story of a criminal defense attorney (Robert Taylor) and a nightclub dancer (Cyd Charisse) who struggle to break free of t...
Rebel Without a Cause J. David Slocum June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film The cinema of Nicholas Ray, even in early efforts like They Live by Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Flying Leathernecks (1951), and The Lusty Men (1952), ranges across conventional Hollywood genres ...
Johnny Guitar David Sanjek June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Does it come at all as a surprise that the first image in the often-hallucinatory Johnny Guitar features an explosion, and one whose cause is not immediately apparent? Or that the next sequence draws attention ...
Knock on Any Door Brad Weismann June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Knock on Any Door looks like a throwback to the socially conscious gangster movie of the 1930s… the resurrection of a dying genre.” - Bernard Eisenschitz (1) “In some respects, Knock on Any Door conforms to ...
They Live by Night George Kaplan June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film N. B. Those who wish to avoid prior knowledge of the story, particularly its climax, should put off reading these notes till after seeing the film. Hopefully, then, they will want to see the film again! When...
The Heart is a “Lonely” Hunter: On Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place Serena Bramble June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is not impossible to believe that before Nicolas Ray there was never an American director who better understood the unbearable fragility of being human. From his debut film, 1949’s film noir They Live by Nig...
“God was wrong”: Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life Adrian Danks March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Bigger Than Life (1956 USA 95 mins) Prod Co: Twentieth Century-Fox Prod: James Mason Dir: Nicholas Ray Scr: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, based on the article “Ten Feet Tall” by Berton Roueché Phot: Joe M...
