Collections

• Shot in a Weekend

  Four Roger Corman pictures that turned no time and no budget into a directing philosophy, from his 1955 debut to the half-improvised 1963 shoot that helped launch Coppola and Nicholson.

• Rathbone Holmes: Wartime to Finale

  Four entries from Roy William Neill's Universal Sherlock Holmes run, from Basil Rathbone racing Nazi agents to the series' last cipher.

• Building the Kino-Eye

  Three trial runs and the 1929 landmark they were all pointing toward — Dziga Vertov's theory of the camera as a mechanical eye, built one Soviet documentary at a time.

• The Unchained Camera

  Four films in five years where F. W. Murnau broke a new piece of film grammar every time, and told stories about bargains that cost everything.

• Three Noir Nights

  Poverty Row fatalism, a man investigating his own murder, and Fritz Lang at his cruelest — the public domain's noir shelf, start to finish.