Category: Classic Corner

Some movies are classics for a reason. Carol Reed’s 1949 thriller, back in theaters in a new 35mm re-release, is one of them.

Nagisa Ōshima’s 1969 classic plays at American Cinematheque’s Los Feliz Theatre on June 7th as part of Bleak Week. But you don’t have to be in L.A. to be bummed out by it.

Robert Zemeckis’s 1980 flop really is the kind of comedy they don’t make any more — because no one is redeemed, and no lessons are learned.

Sixty years ago this week, Robert Bresson’s religious allegory premiered to mixed reviews. But time has been kind to it, even as (or perhaps because) the world itself grows more cruel.

The New Orleans-set erotic thriller still sizzles with the scorching chemistry of stars Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin.

The psychological horror film that Spanish Surrealist Luis Buñuel was born to direct is now streaming on Criterion in all its sordid glory.

This witty, fast-paced 1948 noir about a man framed by his own boss is as tightly constructed as the giant timepiece at the center of its narrative.

John Sturges’s masterful mash-up of Western, film noir, and social commentary is a lean, mean, 81-minute masterclass in Hollywood craft.

John Schlesinger’s 1985 spy thriller boasts fine performances from Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn, and a refreshingly cynical view of the American intelligence apparatus.

Marlon Brando’s sole directorial effort remains a fascinating and occasionally confounding conflation of the old and the (then-) new.