In honor of the actor’s 100th birthday this week, we look back at a role that offered him the rare chance to underplay his brash persona.
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Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s adaptation of the incendiary Heinrich Böll novel premiered in the U.S. fifty years ago this week, but it feels like it hasn’t aged a day.
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In honor of his 100th birthday on September 8th, we revisit the late-career passion project that gave Peter Sellers one of his best roles
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It’s a tale as old as time. Boy and girl meet. They fall in love. Marriage and children follow. Then the […]
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It’s been six decades since John Schlesinger’s swinging 60’s satire was released, but its dim view of the “good life” feels eternally relevant.
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Now streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of its Summer Romances series, Elia Kazan’s 1961 melodrama of sexual frustration is overheated in the best possible way.
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On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its French release, we look back at the documentary that’s come to represent Agnès Varda’s uniquely generous approach to filmmaking.
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Entering the Criterion Collection this week is a biopic whose unusual structure is a perfect match for its subject.
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John Schlesinger’s adaptation of Nathanael West’s novella is one of the most caustic takedowns of classic Hollywood the 70’s produced. Maligned on its initial release, it’s ripe for rediscovery by modern audiences.
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Claude Berri’s epic two-parter, recently added to the Criterion Collection, is the sort of meticulous historical recreation that doesn’t get made enough anymore.
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1968’s winner for the Best Foreign Language Oscar – now streaming on Criterion Channel in its Czech New Wave collection – is a wry warning against passivity in the face of fascism.
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In honor of his 100th birthday, we revisit a late career masterpiece from a director whose time in the dream factory could sometimes be a nightmare.
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