The notorious experimental arthouse horror film returns to theaters by way of a surprising restoration.
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Finally available to stream, this eerie Japanese New Wave classic is ripe for rediscovery.
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A new biography and retrospectives of journeyman director Richard Fleischer should bring new eyeballs to his masterful but underseen 1971 thriller.
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Duke Mitchell’s gonzo exploitation masterwork was once thought lost and unsalvageable. Now, it’s widely available to see. But are you ready for it?
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Seventy years later, Nicholas Ray’s harrowing melodrama about pharmacology, middle class anxiety, and paternal madness is more relevant than ever.
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As the world prepares for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” we look back at a very different adaptation of classical Greek antiquity, dealing with the aftermath of the Trojan War.
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As we celebrate what would have been the iconic character actor’s 100th birthday, it’s his smallest roles that often left the largest impression.
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Eighty years after its initial release, Jacques Tournier’s underrated ensemble Western is ripe for canonization.
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The Los Angeles-based film fest celebrating “the cinema of despair” expands globally, bringing arthouse audiences together in shared misery.
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A forgotten ’50s musical noir melodrama is an unexpected gonzo masterpiece that deserves rediscovery and cult classic status.
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Bill Duke’s adaptation of Chester Himes’s iconic crime novel remains a minor but important work in the canon of neo-noir cinema.
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For its 30th anniversary, a reconsideration of this flawed but fascinating all-star neo-noir.
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