Tourneur Classic Movies

I wrote a review for Christine Leteux’s wonderful, scholarly biography Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams, and Film Comment were kind enough to publish it. I hope it at least approaches doing justice to Christine’s scholarship. Still is from IN THE NAME OF THE LAW, displaying Tourneur père’s exquisite shadowplay.

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