Category: Happy Birthday

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel is a gorgeous and grotesque medieval whodunnit, proving that the conventional blockbuster can capture literary complexity.

A new biography and retrospectives of journeyman director Richard Fleischer should bring new eyeballs to his masterful but underseen 1971 thriller.

Though perhaps best known for his work with Spielberg, in his own directorial debut, David Koepp exhibited a decidedly less rosy view of humanity.

On its 75th anniversary, a look at the many off-kilter charms of the Cary Grant and Joseph L. Mankiewicz collaboration.

Lionel Barrymore plays a delightfully arrogant murderer in this cruelly efficient piece of pre-Code nastiness from nearly a century ago.

A hard-boiled detective uncovers a conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Anthony Mann’s unique fusion of history and film noir, released 75 years ago this week.

What initially looked like (and was probably intended as) a dopey Todd Phillips-style comedy instead plays now as an indictment of the assumptions of the university system.

Why did Alan Parker’s working-class musical mean so much to young people in the pre-Nirvana 1990s, and how could it resonate with digital natives coming of age today?

This tragically unseen 1976 gem tapped into a unique pre-AIDS moment in queer history.

“That’s the way I became a filmmaker. You get tired of going to the movies and seeing stuff that you don’t […]

Brian De Palma took inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock for his 1976 romantic thriller, but he more than made it his own.