Hitchcock’s Only Lost Film: Why the BFI is Desperate to Find ‘The Mountain Eagle’ (1926)
There is a particular species of cultural anxiety reserved for things that should exist but do not. Not the grief of loss—that is clean, mappable, mournable—but the vertigo of erasure; the sensation of reaching for something confirmed to have once occupied a specific coordinate in space and time, only to find the coordinate itself has … Read more