A no-frills B-noir born in the gutter of Hollywood’s Poverty Row, Detour was shot in six days on a broken-shoestring budget in the low six figures. Given the track record of its parent PRC film studio (Producers Releasing Corporation, or “Pretty Rotten Crap,” as the joke went), this 1945 road movie should have disappeared into the vanishing point of film history faster than a hitchhiker in your rearview mirror. Click through for Paul Brunick’s review of the film and a short interview with Noah Isenberg, who will be introducing the film tonight, November 16th, at BAM.
Category Archives: CineBrat
Road to Perdition
November 16, 2009 – 4:29 pm
The Dance of Death
November 9, 2009 – 3:25 pm
How can one explain the wonderful and terrifying magic of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 adaptation of The Red Shoes? A film about creative obsession, it has itself become the object of such obsession.
King for a Day
November 2, 2009 – 12:59 pm
If you’re looking for one cuh-ray-zee scene (and I’m talking wild, man) then shuffle down to the East Village for Roger Corman’s hipster horror-comedy A Bucket of Blood, now playing at Anthology Film Archives as part of their Corman retrospective.
Hearts and Minds
October 23, 2009 – 2:38 pm
Half a century old but joltingly relevant, Elia Kazan’s Wild River sheds more light on the promises and pitfalls of our current political moment than almost anything you’ll catch on cable news.
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