The city of Venice has been the setting for many macabre tales. With “Don’t Look Now,” director Nicolas Roeg told one of its most chilling.
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ remains one of the only adaptations of Edith Wharton’s work. On its 30th anniversary, we explore what binds these two artists together.
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Not everything about Sofia Coppola’s second film has aged like a fine wine, but its portrait of two adrift souls is timeless.
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When Robbie Robertson passed last month, he left behind arguably the greatest concert film ever made.
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One of the greatest baseball movies of all time is about exploited players who can only assert their value by losing on purpose.
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Neil Jordan’s collaboration with Sinead O’Connor is a lasting testament to their friendship and to the values in which she was most invested.
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Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just […]
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Before Keanu wreaked havoc on a mysterious, arcane underworld in the John Wick franchise, Wesley Snipes boldly walked a similar path as vampire hunter Blade.
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1930s screen goddess Kay Francis (whose films are now streaming on the Criterion Channel) embodied the Pre-Code era’s spirit of “sheer elegance and pure sex.”
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In honor of its seventieth anniversary, we look back at a ‘don’t-make-them-like-they-used-to’ romance that probably couldn’t be made today at all.
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From ‘The Exorcist’ to ‘The Omen’ to the drive-in schlock that rode their coattails, ’70s audiences (and filmmakers) couldn’t get enough of Old Scratch.
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Peter Weir’s survivor drama was too much for audiences in 1993, but it stands as one of his (and Jeff Bridges’s) towering achievements.
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