Contributor Adam Scovell

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In Praise Of

How In a Lonely Place deconstructed misogyny in Hollywood

by Adam Scovell

Nicholas Ray’s 1950 tale of male power, anger and violence is receiving a timely theatrical re-run.
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In Praise Of

Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and the art of the chase

by Adam Scovell

How the director’s mastery of space and location created the famous crop-duster sequence.

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