Category: Classic Corner

Finally available to stream, this eerie Japanese New Wave classic is ripe for rediscovery.

Eric Rohmer’s effervescent coming-of-age story is a perfect balm for the end-of-summer blues.

Larry Cohen’s 1976 cult favorite is a cuckoo-bananas mash-up of cop movie, supernatural thriller, and religious meditation.

This 1979 comedy-drama is a real oddity: a film about a woman from a writer known for his stories about men, from a director known primarily as a screenwriter, with a serious supporting turn from one of the era’s biggest comedy stars.

Seventy years later, Nicholas Ray’s harrowing melodrama about pharmacology, middle class anxiety, and paternal madness is more relevant than ever.

Oliver Stone’s early, angry chronicle of a war correspondent under fire boasts a ferocious energy and an electrifying performance by James Woods.

Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 adaptation of Miles Franklin’s novel provided early breakthrough roles for both Judy Davis and the late, great Sam Neill.

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.

Eighty years after its initial release, Jacques Tournier’s underrated ensemble Western is ripe for canonization.

Often viewed as his most “normal” film, David Lynch’s sophomore feature is as Lynchian as what came before and after it.

The 1987 screwball comedy is a Swiss watch of comic precision.