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Touch of Evil

July 2015

  • Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Victor Millan and Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil.

    Touch of Evil review – brilliant noir drama restored to Welles's vision

    Orson Welles gave one of his most Shakespearean performances as an ageing, corrupt police chief in this remarkable melodrama

December 2014

  • Are you folowing me? Michael Keaton in Birdman.

    The tracking shot: film-making magic - or stylistic self-indulgence?

    Jonathan Romney: From Hitchcock’s Rope to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie Birdman, directors have used the tracking shot to create the sense of a seamless one-shot film. But is it brilliant movie-making – or just showing off?

December 2011

  • Philip French's classic DVD
    Touch of Evil

    Orson Welles's dark, complex 1958 masterpiece paved the way for Hitchcock's Psycho, writes Philip French

June 2011

  • Bill Varney

    Bill Varney obituary

    Sound mixer on Orson Welles's remastered film noir Touch of Evil

October 2010

  • Touch of Evil

    The 25 best crime films of all time
    Touch of Evil: No 2 best crime film of all time

    Orson Welles, 1958

December 2001

  • A touch of evil

    The test audience loathed it and critics called it pornographic. Yet, 15 years on, Blue Velvet is seen as a modern classic. Kyle MacLachlan tells Brian Logan how playing Jeffrey changed his life

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