“The Thin Man” captured everything soon to be forbidden by the Hays Code in an exemplary crime comedy anchored by one of the screen’s most charismatic couples and their dog.
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Featuring a mesmerizing performance from Ray Milland, Hitchcock’s “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” still stuns as a gruesome tale of jealousy and revenge. A look back, on the eve of its 70th anniversary.
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Fifty years after its release, this adaptation of the Henry James novella ranks a notch below Peter Bogdanovich’s previous four films, though it’s not as far removed in quality from his magical initial run as its reputation suggests.
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In 1994, Disney embarked on its first home-video sequel, inadvertently kick-starting an era where the studio began to cannibalize itself for content.
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Frank Perry’s 1968 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) is a still-shattering story of suburban ennui, anchored by an astonishing Burt Lancaster performance.
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Director Wayne Wang and writer Paul Auster had such a great time making their Brooklyn indie, they got Miramax to finance another one.
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Set to be rebooted with an opportunistic trilogy, Bryan Bertino’s horror classic derives its power from its haunting ambiguity.
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Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) remains as thorny and complicated as ever.
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With his adaptation of Graham Greene’s ‘Ministry of Fear,’ Fritz Lang showed it was just as important to fight Nazis on the home front as it was on the front lines.
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In the quarter-century since its release, it’s become abundantly clear that a particular alchemy was at work when writer/director Stephen Sommers crafted his take on the Universal monster.
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Ahead of a new biopic about Flannery O’Connor, we look back at the sole adaptation of her Southern Gothic classic.
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The recent Kino Lorber Blu-Ray marks the latest in a series of restorations of Nancy Savoca’s work. It’s a good reminder that all movies are miracles, some more than others.
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