One of the earliest fiction films available to view on the BFI Player is a second film from called Snowballs. We might think of season-traversing musicals like Meet Me in St. At other times, we feel only the chill, when the wintertime is used as a backdrop for human dramas where emotions are laid as bare as the stark landscapes The Sweet Hereafter, ; Tuesday, after Christmas, Now, with the trees bare, the nights long and the temperatures frigid, huddle close for 10 classic movies set during the winter.
Delirious with hunger, he shares the upper and the sole between them, twirling the laces around his fork like spaghetti, and sucking each boot nail like a delectably juicy bone.
Think of film noir and we think of dark city streets. But there is a shift to the countryside when, after he is found to be viciously beating suspects, he is sent upstate to a rural backwater to investigate the murder of a young girl. During his investigation, the jaded cop will encounter Mary Malden Ida Lupino , the blind sister of the murdered girl, whose innate goodness becomes the catalyst for his redemption.
This simple dichotomy between urban cynicism and the purity of the country risks being sentimental, but Ray approaches the transformation in Wilson with complete conviction. With spirited music by Bernard Herrmann, On Dangerous Ground is a rare thriller that charts the transfiguration of a soul. The heat and dust of many classic westerns is balanced out by a rich seam of the genre set in winter, when the cowboys come draped in furs and mountain passes are perilous with snow.
Miller charts the romance between a gambler and a prostitute as winter falls on a pioneer town. Track of the Cat is the strangest of the bunch, a hauntingly weird cabin-fever drama about a pioneer family living in the Rockies, where lives have twisted in on themselves.
