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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The imaginative collaboration between director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and writer Joss Whedon got the sci-fi/horror series back on track after a disastrous third installment.
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Werner Herzog’s documentary, released 20 years ago, is attempt to understand a man who wanted to become an animal — but it becomes an exploration of the complex relationship between the documentarian and his subject.
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Although they were each stars in their own right, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell briefly shone as a comedy team in neglected films like “We’re in the Money,” released 90 years ago this week.
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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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Thirty years ago this summer, the uber-popular teen comedy genre took on some sci-fi trappings, with fascinating results.
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It’s been six decades since John Schlesinger’s swinging 60’s satire was released, but its dim view of the “good life” feels eternally relevant.
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Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowell, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse — all legends. But 40 years after its 1985 release, we pay tribute to the unsung hero of the original ‘Fright Night.’
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Forty years after its butchered American release, we look back at Dario Argento’s craziest movie.
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In a time when trans people find themselves increasingly on defense, the Criterion Channel celebrates one whose default is to play offense.
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Thirty years after its controversial release, a look back at Larry Clark’s notorious portrait of youth gone to seed in mid-’90s Manhattan.
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It may have been released during the summer 80 years ago, but this Barbara Stanwyck romantic comedy captures its own screwball sense of the Christmas spirit.
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