Dan Callahan
Critic Dan Callahan has written for New York, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Time Out New York, Film International, and other publications. His books include Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman and Vanessa: The Life and Times of Vanessa Redgrave.
By Dan Callahan
| November 2, 2006
Dionysus (1970) is filmed on rough black-and-white stock, but its visual harmonies are elegant, sexy and surprising, exploratory yet rigorously controlled.
By Dan Callahan
| July 22, 2006
Capricorn is unlike any other Hitchcock film in the relative freedom it gives the audience to decide what to look at and what to respond to, which is why it always seems to change slightly after every viewing.
By Dan Callahan
| May 11, 2006
Melville’s tough-guy mannerisms in movies like Le Doulos, Le Samourai, and Le Cercle rouge always strike me as impenetrable and faintly ridiculous, even though I admire the films’ visual elegance and deadpan noir rhythms.