Category: Looking Back

How a British director, a British screenwriter, and a British author combined to create a quintessentially American Western.

Eddie Muller’s rediscovery and reissue of a forgotten Argentine noir, from the writer of “Rear Window,” reveals a cross-cultural gem.

Tom Cruise’s star vehicle has a greater depth and wider influence than you might think – even if it took several decades to become apparent.

Paul Verhoeven left Hollywood to make a film about the Dutch resistance, but that didn’t mean he became respectable.

Before ‘Longlegs,’ filmmaker Osgood Perkins was already a master of the haunting horror tone poem.

In her Gotham-set trilogy “Smithereens,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” and “Cookie,” director Susan Seidelman explored the quirks and eccentricities of ‘80s women.

If epics are defined as a “body of legend or tradition” illuminating the lives of single, indefinable people, all of Powell and Pressburger’s work could be described as “epic”.