James Wong Howe The Camera Eye: A Career Interview
Alain Silver is the author ofThe Samurai Film. Among his other books areThe Noir Style, The Vampire Film, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles , More Things than are Dreamt Of, L.A. Noir, and director studies of David Lean, Robert Aldrich and Roger Corman. He is co-editor ofFilm Noir: The Encyclopedia, fourFilm Noir Readers,Horror Film Reader,andGangster Film Reader. His produced screenplays includeKiss Daddy Goodbye, the Showtime featureTime at the Top, and an adaptation of Dostoevsky'sWhite Nights, which he also directed. Selected feature credits as a producer includeCrashing, Beat, Cyborg2, 10th & Wolf, Night Visitor, andPalmer's Pick-up.  He has done audio or video commentaries for over two dozen titles from Warner Bros., 20th-Century Fox and Criterion including David Lean'sHobson's Choiceand numerous classic period film noir such asMurder, My Sweet, Out of the Past, Thieves' Highway, Call Northside 777, Panic in the Streets, The Dark Corner, Laura, Double Indemnity, Kiss of Death, The Street with No Name, Crossfire, Lady in the Lake, Nightmare Alley, Brute Force, Tension, Mystery StreetandWhere Danger Lives. His essays accompany the Criterion releases ofSamurai SpyandThe Seven Samurai.