The 1937 screwball comedy can be enjoyed as one of the best of its type—and as a historic record of the moment a screen persona was perfected.
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One of cinema’s strongest indictments of the American Dream, Brian De Palma’s 1981 political thriller dredges up what were then still fresh memories of the JFK assassination, Chappaquiddick, and Watergate, and reopens these unhealed wounds.
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As the oldest living actress of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her 100th birthday, we reconsider her work in the two stone-cold classics of her career.
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In memory of Donald Sutherland, we look back at his staring role in Federico Fellini’s historical epic of sex, love, and debauchery.
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As well as its jokes and social commentary hold up 25 years after its release, the film’s songs and grasp of musical theater history increasingly feel like its defining elements.
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Jacques Demy’s enchanting, heartsick 1961 debut isn’t a musical, but that’s not for lack of trying.
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A commercial failure upon its release and all but forgotten since, the Paul Schrader / Michael J. Fox / Joan Jett team-up doesn’t quite land, but has moments of electricity.
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Once a box-office flop, Joe Dante’s celebration of B-movie magic now gets the restoration and appreciation it deserves.
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Three interpretations of Herman Wouk’s “The Caine Mutiny” raise questions about the good and the bad of ingrained hierarchies, and what it means to dutifully and faithfully serve.
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On this, its 45th anniversary, a look back at the magic and mayhem of Jim Henson and company’s inaugural effort.
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Sam Fuller’s 1959 thriller begins as a sordid police procedural, but morphs into something far more unusual and compelling.
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This nuanced story of a liberal father and his fundamentalist son was one of several films Miramax unceremoniously dumped in theaters in the summer of ’99.
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