A peerless film portrait of a major if under-recognized Hollywood moviemaker, “Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows” elegantly encompasses the work and career of a producer who doggedly ...

“The Man in the Shadows” dispenses with the usual niceties of introducing its subject, producer Val Lewton, up front. We get no clearly marked montage of his films, not even an explanation of ...

The late artist Val Lewton was captivated by the yin and yang ... Val was a California native, the son of the Hollywood producer and screenwriter who created “Cat People” and “I Walked ...

The latest conversation piece for Scorsese is the low-budget, WWII-era horror film producer Val Lewton. Scorsese has produced the new documentary Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, which he also ...

For this reason, his work is best watched as a set, which made the 2005 five-disc, nine-movie “Val ... Lewton’s legacy. “Shadows” suggests that these parallels are crucial to viewing the ...

AS the head of RKO’s low-budget horror unit in the 1940s, Val Lewton was supposed ... Tourneur and Lewton were a dream match of director and producer, but the studio split them up in the hope ...

Horror movies still haven’t learned the lessons Val Lewton taught so well back in ... When the Russian-born, US-raised producer (originally named Vladimir Leventon) was hired by the new regime ...

To label producer Val Lewton’s incredible series of movies as “horror” is to miss the point. In nine films, from “Cat People” to “Bedlam,” Lewton explored our innermost fears ...

A peerless film portrait of a major if under-recognized Hollywood moviemaker, “Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows” elegantly encompasses the work and career of a producer who doggedly ...

Selznick and Hal Wallis, but Val Lewton is perhaps not so well remembered except among film buffs and historians. A couple of those buffs, producer Martin Scorsese and writer-director Kent Jones ...