Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar's inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and spectres. An avant-garde film-historical essay.
Laird Cregar
Self (archive footage)
Dementia
1955
Reminiscence
2021
Sunset Boulevard
1950
The Lost Weekend
1945
Possessed
1947
Sleep, My Love
1948
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014
Nightfall
1956
The Substance
2024
They Won't Believe Me
The Deliverance
Journey into Fear
1943
Point Blank
1967
The Amazing Mr. X
Born to Be Bad
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
I Saw the TV Glow
Secret Beyond the Door
The Dark Corner
1946