https://vo.rs/tags/marlene-dietrich/Latest from the Marlene Dietrich desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/touch-of-evil-welless-grubby-border-masterpiece/<p>A ticking bomb is placed in the boot of a car. The camera cranes up over a Mexican border town at night, follows the car through crowded streets, past a couple strolling and joking, across the checkpoint into the United States — and holds all of it in a single unbroken shot lasting more than three minutes, until the car explodes just outside frame. It is one of the most famous openings in cinema, and Orson Welles put it at the front of <em>Touch of Evil</em> in 1958 as both a display of pure technique and a statement of theme: everything in this film is connected, everyone crosses the line, and the fuse is always burning under the ordinary.</p>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000