Category: Happy Birthday

A look back at Sam Peckinpah’s violent but meditative “definitive statement” on the Western.

Twenty-five years ago, both Christina Ricci and queer cinema noisily came of age in this crass, unapologetic sex comedy.

The last of director Peter Bogdanovich’s classic 1971-1973 run proves nepotism isn’t always a bad thing.

Martha Coolidge’s social satire, released 40 years ago and loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, is one of the rare frothy teen comedies that stands the test of time.

Blake Edwards couldn’t make ‘Chinatown’ work as a buddy comedy, but he did send a very different Bruce Willis into the sunset in style.

Before George Romero, cinematic zombies were more haunted and tragic than flesh-hungry and horrific.

In Tim Burton’s horror/comedy, the future Moira Rose staked her claim as a comedy superstar.

Mel Brooks’ infamously audacious comedy lands its laughs with giddy pleasure and unexpected depth.

In this seriocomic drama, released 30 years ago this month, both Robert De Niro and Bill Murray tinkered with their established personas in ways that would re-direct their careers.

The 60-year-old “High and Low” proves Akira Kurosawa was just as adept at crafting contemporary stories as he was samurai epics.

Forty years on from its theatrical release, Bill Forsyth’s signature film still casts a heady spell, despite his own feelings about ‘the Brigadoon thing.’