When you review a movie, you should take notes. In the case of The General, those notes come away awfully repetitive, typically filled with adjectives for “amazing” and “remarkable.” It’s appropriate as Buster Keaton was remarkable, and the stunt work in The General puts him in that rare category for stuntmen: the ones with a [...]

If there is any scene in The Third Man that captures the ability of Carol Reed, it is the Ferris wheel. Here Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) meets his mysterious friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) face-to-face for the first time. Before their meeting inside one of the wheel’s cars, the camera is tilted left to right. [...]