Category: Classic Corner

With a new Mel Brooks documentary on HBO Max, we take a look at his most controversial comedy.

Even recency-biased Netflix can’t help streaming this 1973 Best Picture winner, a fast-paced delight that floats on the considerable charms of Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

No more talk of “Ella McCay” — let us instead look back at James L. Brooks’s feature screenwriting debut, now streaming on the Criterion Channel.

For seven years in the mid-‘70s, the Jimmy Cliff vehicle played to sold-out crowds at the Orson Welles Cinema, and its runaway success brought reggae to an unlikely audience.

With Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” out this month, a look back at his first indie triptych.

Alexander Mackendrick’s noir-vember essential was a flop upon its initial release in 1957 — but its weathered, weary cynicism has aged like a fine wine.

Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.

Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.”

To honor the late, great Diane Keaton, a look back at the movie that won her an Oscar and made her an icon.