Category: Happy Birthday

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its French release, we look back at the documentary that’s come to represent Agnès Varda’s uniquely generous approach to filmmaking.

A quarter century ago, Roland Emmerich’s Revolutionary War blockbuster gave the actor his juiciest film role yet — and he’s been presumed villainous ever since.

Thought it may be overshadowed by other Eastwood Westerns, this is still an effective and bold revisionist oater.

A century after its debut, a milestone of silent comedy has been restored to its long-lost original glory.

Disney’s first widescreen animated feature used the nascent CinemaScope technique in depicting a low-key romance in turn-of-the-century America.

Spielberg’s breakthrough film was an immediate success on its 1975 premiere and its status as a cultural juggernaut is still seen today. How has that affected the island community where the film was shot?

This 1985 hit seemed like a weird film for late-era John Huston, but its dark heart and nihilistic view on romance fit perfectly into his rich filmography.

One of Disney’s earliest live-action hits had its roots on TV as a halfway marketing campaign for the Disneyland theme park.

Agnès Varda made her directorial debut not with a short, but the feature “La Pointe Courte,” first screened at Cannes 70 years ago.