How Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece became the template for a certain kind of auteur confessional.
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Theaters and video stores of the 1990s were awash with valentines to the open road, free love, and casual crime. A look back at some of those films, and what they tell us about the time:
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The documentarian’s latest, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix,’ further cements his distinctive style – and recurring areas of interest.
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Though separated by two decades and two languages, Tsai Ming-Liang’s 2003 drama and Bill and Turner Ross’s 2020 pseudo-documentary share an affinity for the bonds that grow between strangers in shared spaces.
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The British novelist, who died late last year, leaves a legacy of film adaptations that jettison the girls and gizmos of Bond in favor of complex characterizations and world-weary cynicism.
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Twenty-five years after its release, Oliver Stone’s biopic of the 37th president remains a towering achievement – and a testament to not judging a film by its pedigree.
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With “Crash” out on Blu-ray this week from Criterion, we look back at the various attempts to translate JG Ballard’s work to the screen.
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How three films – by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Andrzej Zulawski – redefined genre cinema, and the films of their children continued those traditions.
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The once and future collaborators’ path from ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ to ‘After Hours’ to ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ to ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ (again).
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Director Michael Ritchie veered from character studies to commercial comedies, but throughout his filmography, the subject of sports (and a cynical approach to it) was a constant.
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In recent weeks and months, Hollywood’s legacy of cultural appropriation and racism has come under increased scrutiny, with the latest controversy […]
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Truffaut’s famous dictum regarding the impossibility of ever making a truly anti-war film is, usually, equally applicable to movies about cops. […]
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