Louis Bayard

  • Culture December 1, 2013

    Dana Andrews in Otto Preminger’s 1944 film Laura. The final sequence of Abel Gance’s silent epic Napoléon (1927) unfurls in something called Polyvision: a triptych of screens in which the center panel shows the main action, while complementary or simultaneous action plays out on the side panels. In person, the device can feel more theatrical […]