Moira Shearer, who died on Tuesday at 80, was a strikingly beautiful leading ballerina with the Sadler’s Wells (later the Royal) Ballet in London. She was best known for her performance in the film ...
Certain varietals of grandly gestured cinema inspire mad, inexplicable devotion among cinephiles: The films of Welles, Ophüls, Sirk, Leone, Scorsese, and Wong, for example, tend to magnetize our nerve ...