https://vo.rs/tags/expressionism/Latest from the Expressionism desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 27 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-night-of-the-hunter-laughtons-only-film-and-a-miracle/<p>Charles Laughton directed one film in his life, <em>The Night of the Hunter</em>, it lost money and got mixed reviews, and he never directed another. This is one of the cruellest facts in film history, because the film he made is among the most beautiful and terrifying ever produced in America, a crime story told as a Grimm fairy tale, and the industry&rsquo;s failure to see it in 1955 cost us every film Laughton might have gone on to make. He died eight years later having proven, once, that he was one of the great visual directors, and then having been talked out of ever doing it again.</p>Tue, 27 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000