Category: Classic Corner

Orson Welles’s low-budget 1951 adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy is one of his most ingenious pictures, a threadbare, ramshackle, discombobulated production that he all but willed into greatness.

Bob Fosse’s 1974 biopic of the groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce is a prickly, brutal, occasionally frustrating, yet formally impressive work.

In the late ’70s, there were two surefire ways to break into movies: porn and horror. Abel Ferrara tried both, launching a career spent probing society’s underbelly.

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.