One decade after introducing Godzilla to the world, Ishiro Honda brought to the screen a more down-to-earth threat to humanity.
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What if Robert Redford’s directorial debut didn’t actually “steal” those Oscars from “Raging Bull”? What if it’s a fine, worthy film in its own right?
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Stanley Kubrick’s moody second feature film, released 70 years ago this week, is an underrated precursor of his future brilliance.
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This disturbing but highly-influential psycho-sexual ’60s cult classic finds new life and a new audience.
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Wim Wenders bounced back from an early disaster by crafting one of his finest films — poignant, keenly observant, and unfailingly true.
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To honor the recently-departed Terence Stamp, we look back at one of his best (and most unsung) turns: as the Zen center of Stephen Frears’s 1984 crime drama.
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As the summer comes to a close, we recommend Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 masterpiece — a poignant and erotic story of lust, longing, and loss.
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Dan O’Bannon’s offbeat entry into zombie horror (released 40 years ago) throws in wild humor, punk aesthetics, and cranial desire to create a stew of delightfully odd gross-outs and scares.
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When Akira Kurosawa made this Russian co-production 50 years ago, his career (and life) was at a low point— and yet he came up with one of his most unusual and affecting pictures.
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Now streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of its Summer Romances series, Elia Kazan’s 1961 melodrama of sexual frustration is overheated in the best possible way.
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Eddie Murphy’s 1984 super-smash is a true crowdpleaser with a fascinating backstory.
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A film with a tangled history almost as convoluted as the story it tells, Orson Welles’s “Mr. Arkadin” has a playfulness that belies its ramshackle nature.
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