‘Casablanca’ was released 80 years ago today, and there’s a reason why its “La Marseillaise” scene is so powerful: it’s filled with actors who were themselves displaced by the Nazi regime.
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Despite little fanfare, ‘Silent Night’ is a sharp (if melancholy) holiday film, capturing a Christmas party spent on the brink of humanity’s destruction.
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With three separate ‘Pinocchio’ adaptations hitting screens this year, it’s time for a 20th anniversary postmortem of Roberto Benigni’s notorious version.
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Two portraits of prep-school life and sympathetic instructors, but drawing on very different worldviews and outcomes.
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When Orson Welles broadcast his immortal radio play on Halloween night of 1938, he began a tradition that has served horror well for decades.
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The inventive Polish-Russian filmmaker’s unique work would influence directors as varied as Henry Selick, John Lasseter, and Stan Brakhage.
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For a brief, bizarre time in the 1950s, filmmakers figured they could make a quick buck by catering their pictures to the newly relevant teen audience. Here’s how that went:
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When Leslie Howard’s plane was shot down in June of 1943, it launched questions and conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
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You can all but set your watch to it, every time a new and potentially challenging film is released: the careful, […]
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In 1938, the gifted actress was struggling after a string of flops. She would have to redefine her screen persona to save her career – and she did just that.
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This Mother’s Day season, two new films are thoughtfully examining the parental relationship via cinematic magic.
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When Howard Hawks’ iconic gangster movie hit screens 90 years ago, it had to do a bit of a two-step with the enforcers of the Production Code.
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