Val Lewton

... and the importance of the studio who supported him

I’ve written before about the importance of the studios as enablers of new and different voices in cinema, and I want to reinforce that idea by looking back at the career of Val Lewton. His may be a name you are not familiar with, but chances are that even if you haven’t seen one of his films, you’ve watched films that were influenced by his work.

Lewton…