The Lady from Shanghai

Milton Crack Lopez. Hoy en la Filmoteca ninja traemos un clásico de Orson Wells, “La Dama de Shanghái” donde la hermosa Rita Hayworth muestra su habilidad para cortarnos la respiración con su sola presencia. - Este film nos cuenta la historia de Michael O'Hara quien es obligado a ser miembro de la tripulación del yate de Arthur Bannister. En el camino a San Francisco, recogen a Grisby, el socio de Bannister. También…

So, what is film noir? A crime film with more drama and some essence of aesthetic, black and white mostly because no film noir has crossed the 50s, and most of the time the underlying theory is that "it's a big bad world out there." Now you know what a film noir is. Usually, the hero of the movie is placed in a situation where he doesn't belong, almost always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes he's bein…

*Citizen Kane* turned out to be the mixed blessing in Orson Welles's career. On one hand, this masterpiece brought instant fame and respect. On the other hand, being created so early in the filmmaker's career, it guaranteed that the rest of Welles's films would be judged as disappointments. Yet, as a consequence of Welles's near-divine reputation, even some of those disappointments later attained the status of cinem…