
Our week of Bad Romances climaxes with Nagisa Oshima’s graphic story of sexual obsession – one still unseen in its home country in its uncut form.
Read moreOur week of Bad Romances climaxes with Nagisa Oshima’s graphic story of sexual obsession – one still unseen in its home country in its uncut form.
Read moreSome films are impossible to separate from their provenance. That’s especially true for those made during wartime. 1943’s The Life and […]
Read moreWith “Hard Truths” in theaters, a look back at one of Mike Leigh’s earliest and thorniest pictures.
Read moreWith the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” nabbing 8 Oscar nominations, this week’s pick is the 1965 documentary that captures Dylan at his trickiest.
Read moreJohn Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon’s debut feature hit theaters 50 years ago this week, but it took a while for the heady sci-fi comedy to take off.
Read moreThe holidays may be over, but Ernst Lubitsch’s Christmas favorite is still ideal cold-weather comfort viewing for its 85th anniversary.
Read more“It’s Xavier,” he mumbles. “With an X or an S?” comes the reply, and an early hint at the kind of […]
Read moreA more-personal-than-usual reflection on the holiday perennial, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Read moreIngmar Bergman’s 13th feature, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Max, was a breakthrough: “I felt for the first time I’d made a good film.”
Read moreOtto Preminger’s 1944 film noir fave maintains its ability to delight and surprise.
Read moreDick Richards’s 1975 adaptation of ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ (now streaming on Peacock and Amazon Prime) merges ‘70s institutional ennui with the hangdog charms of star Robert Mitchum.
Read moreIn the late ’60s, when both men were at the peak of their powers (and coolness), Jean-Pierre Melville directed the late Alain Delon in his career-defining role.
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