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Film · 1958 · Film noir
Touch of Evil
Directed by Orson Welles
1958
★ 7.6 editorial score
The opening crane shot is the most studied three minutes in film school: Welles was fired off his own picture, and the version we watch was restored from his memo.
“The movie begins with one of the most famous shots ever made, following a car with a bomb in its trunk for three minutes and 20 seconds...Welles and his cinematographer, Russell Metty, were not simply showing off. The destinies of all of the main characters are tangled from beginning to end, and the photography makes that point by trapping them in the same shots, or tying them together through cuts that match and resonate.”
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