Recently name-checked by Emma Stone as an inspiration for “Poor Things,” this Czech New Wave classic deserves a much bigger audience.
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Joseph Losey’s 1963 drama is a good old-fashioned “F*** the Rich” tale.
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Director Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” follow-up was 1973’s “Charley Varrick” (now streaming on Netflix), a lean, mean, nasty little heist thriller starring… Walter Matthau?
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A look at the drama, both onscreen and off, of this classic but underseen romantic three-hander from director David Lean.
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The image of the protagonist running across space on New Year’s Eve is a potent one, scattered across cinema history, with classic films redefining it for a new era and a new audience. What does it convey about our desire for newness and progression?
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Errol Morris’s Oscar-winning documentary, released 20 years ago, is a masterful meeting of stylist and subject.
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The Paris of Hemingway, Stein, and company is the stuff of legend, but in Alan Rudolph’s “The Moderns,” the myth comes crashing down to earth.
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On the 40th anniversary of the release of the tough-as-nails cop movie, an appreciation of its unorthodox leading man.
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Frank Capra’s touching and fantastical ode to triumph of the human spirit is a beloved holiday classic. But it’s also a tough and dark story about fate that fits right in line with the movement known as film noir.
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Dueling psychics, vengeful samurai spirits, and deer hunting are some of the ingredients that went into this singular Christmas slasher.
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A twisted and gritty Yuletide fairy tale gets new life thanks to the proselytizing of the cult icon.
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“Silver Bells,” “White Christmas,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” may be seasonal favorites, but they didn’t magically appear out of the holiday ether — all were originally written for movies.
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