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Jun 2, 2024 · Albert Lewin’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) has the Neo-Victorian in spades—adding a further dimension, or layer in time— a triumph of monochrome Gothic film noir.
Jul 9, 2018 · In 1943, film director Albert Lewin—then in the early stages of adapting Wilde’s macabre tale for the big screen—went in search of an artist suited to paint a version of the famous picture.
Lewin’s films are noteworthy for their fascination with the aesthetic, esoteric and perverse, as well as for their unusual protagonists – artists and decadents whose dark obsessions place them at odds with the conventional world.
Lewin continued to highlight art works in his color films of the 1950s, including in what is arguably his masterpiece, the singular Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), a heady melange of Greek myth, German legend, Shakespearean and Jacobean drama, Romantic poetry, and Surrealist imagery, all spiced up with bullfighting, flamenco dancing ...
Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Personal life. Lewin was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri.
Nov 3, 2014 · In the mid-1940s, a filmmaker named Albert Lewin organized a competition of ten reputable artists to produce a painting to be featured in one of his movies. Lewin asked Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Dorothea Tanning, Paul Delvaux and others to paint a surrealist version of an often repeated subject in art and literature: The ...
Jun 25, 2021 · Albert Lewin (1894-1968) was the writer-director between 1942 and 1957 of six unusual Hollywood films. Visually, these fall into two groups. The first three were all made during the 1940s, in black-and-white (with color inserts of paintings), in Hollywood studios, although set in fin-de-siecle Europe.
