book: Beyond All Reasonable Doubt (2012; trans 2019 Rachel Willson-Broyles) by Malin Persson Giolito

Thirteen years ago 15-year-old Katrin was murdered after consensual but seemingly rough sex. In Sweden as in some US states, the age of consent is 15, so the sex itself was not a pedophile crime. Even so, the cops soon became fixated on high-flying hospital doctor Stig Ahlin, who reluctantly admitte... Read full article

On Blu-ray: Friz Lang Does Noir in While the City Sleeps (1956) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Director Fritz Lang had an astounding career. Influential, enduring, and inventive, he was able to adapt from silents to talkies and then from European to Hollywood filmmaking while keep his own unique style. I recently had the chance to watch two crime noir titles from late in his career: While the... Read full article

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 1956 )

"Put them all together they spell M-U-R-D-E-R!" The jigsaw pieces seen on the poster to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt certainly capture the essence of this film - it's a puzzler. Fritz Lang directed a marvelous little thriller that keeps its audiences delighted in trying to out-guess the various twist... Read full article

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 1956 )

"Put them all together they spell M-U-R-D-E-R!" The jigsaw pieces seen on the poster to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt certainly capture the essence of this film - it's a puzzler. Fritz Lang directed a marvelous little thriller that keeps its audiences delighted in trying to out-guess the various twist... Read full article

Classic Films in Focus: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)

Fritz Lang directed Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) quite late in his career, almost forty years after he got his start making silent films in Germany, but this courtroom noir has a lot in common with the director’s earlier pictures, especially in terms of suspense. Like M (1931), Fury (1936)... Read full article