Five decades have done little to diminish the confrontational power of Lina Wertmüller’s 1974 classic of sexual politics. In fact, they might have intensified it.
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The crowning achievement of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands’s decades-long partnership is a grueling portrait of a couple that can’t live together but can’t survive apart.
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Masks are always a popular part of spooky season. But as this French cult classic demonstrates, sometimes it’s not a villain they conceal but a victim.
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As the Criterion Channel celebrates the 100th birthday of Marcello Mastroianni, we recommend one of his undersung comedies for your streaming pleasure.
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As this gangster classic re-enters the Criterion Collection, we offer an ode to Bob Hoskins’s most crucial contribution: his face.
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“With the DNC returning to Chicago for the first time since 1968, Haskell Wexler’s indelible chronicle of that tempestuous year has never been more relevant.
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As the oldest living actress of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her 100th birthday, we reconsider her work in the two stone-cold classics of her career.
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Robert Hamer’s acerbic class satire wasn’t a guaranteed hit for Ealing Studios back in the day. Seventy five years on, it still feels riskier than any current mainstream comedy.
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The recent Kino Lorber Blu-Ray marks the latest in a series of restorations of Nancy Savoca’s work. It’s a good reminder that all movies are miracles, some more than others.
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In between the two “Godfather” films, Francis Ford Coppola made this down and dirty surveillance thriller. Released fifty years ago this week, it might just be his masterpiece.
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Thirty years on, one of the Coens’ biggest box office bombs looks better than ever.
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This fraught but funny anti-rom-com was so ahead of its time, it was deconstructing a genre before it even truly existed.
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