An appreciation of the Chicano cinema classic ahead of its induction into the Criterion Collection.
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On the 20th anniversary of its release, an up-close-and-personal look at the making of Don Coscarelli’s cult classic.
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The story of this 1979 Kennedy assassination satire is as crazy as its plot. Ahead of a new restoration and re-release, a look back at this hidden gem.
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Before Greta Gerwig took a meta-swing at the world’s most famous doll, Todd Haynes used Barbie to disturbingly examine the deterioration of another all-American girl.
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The release of Wes Anderson’s latest movie has inspired a host of criticism and tributes which, unfortunately, trade in the same clichés and do injustice to his body of work.
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A look back at Sam Peckinpah’s violent but meditative “definitive statement” on the Western.
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Widely unavailable until now, Robinson Devor’s documentary about the eccentrics who haunt California’s Coachella Valley is an essential work of American strangeness.
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A look back at two early Michael Mann projects about incarceration, and their long and surprising influence 40-plus years later.
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Richard Rush’s final film, now streaming among the Criterion Channel’s erotic thrillers, is wild in none of the expected ways.
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The most Lynchian of David Lynch’s movies is getting its long-overdue day in the limelight.
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With ‘Possession’ finally available to stream, let’s take a look back at director Andrzej Zulawski’s early breakout film, a dark melodrama with its own cult following.
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In anticipation for a new Preston Sturges retrospective, here’s a look at the director’s subversive screwball one-two punch from 1944.
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