Category: Classic Corner

Michael Cimino’s controversial Oscar winner (now streaming on Netflix) remains a model of atmosphere, authenticity, and mood.

In a season of high-profile labor actions, Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning 1976 documentary feels more essential than ever.

Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 masterpiece (now streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel) remains a heart-wrenching work of quiet minimalism.

The 1982 Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg team-up remains one of the latter’s most fascinating works, both revisiting and subverting his recurring preoccupations.

Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, James Whale’s follow-up to ‘Frankenstein’ warrants enshrinement in the Universal Horror pantheon.

Robert Bresson’s penultimate film — now streaming on the Criterion Channel — remains challenging, difficult, and darkly funny.

“We were young and making a feature film! I think that kind of enthusiasm has a lot to do with the […]

Robert Redford and George Roy Hill’s 1975 reunion (now streaming on Netflix) is a fascinating experiment in tonal shifts and audience empathy.

The first film in the Criterion Channel’s “High School Horror” collection proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters.

The city of Venice has been the setting for many macabre tales. With “Don’t Look Now,” director Nicolas Roeg told one of its most chilling.

When Robbie Robertson passed last month, he left behind arguably the greatest concert film ever made.

One of the greatest baseball movies of all time is about exploited players who can only assert their value by losing on purpose.

Alain Resnais’ 1959 drama, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, asks again-timely questions about dramatizing tragic events.