Graham Greene – Stream On Demand

Orson Welles is Harry Lime on Carol Reed's classic

Continental noir: ‘The Third Man’ on Criterion Channel

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Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles star in Carol Reed’s continental film noir set in the rubble of post-war Vienna. It placed in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made.

Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner appear in Wind River by Taylor Sheridan, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. © 2016 Sundance Institute.

Last chance: ‘Wind River’ – Frontier justice on Netflix

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Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in the lean, stripped down crime thriller set in the Wyoming wilderness, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan (creator of ‘Yellowstone’).

Last chance: ‘Ministry of Fear’ – Fritz Lang’s World War II spy noir

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Ray Milland is a British man plunged into the middle of a Nazi spy ring in Britain in Fritz Lang’s lively World War II espionage thriller.

Alec Guinness in the film by Carol Reed and Graham Greene

Blu-ray: ‘Our Man in Havana’ on Twilight Time

Blu-ray, Twilight Time 03/21/2017 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Our Man in Havana (1959) (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) is the third and final collaboration between director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene. In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties […]