Alain Resnais’ 1959 drama, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, asks again-timely questions about dramatizing tragic events.
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Forty years on, “Easy Money” remains Rodney Dangerfield’s least celebrated and most honest slobs-versus-snobs comedy because, for once, the slobs lose.
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After a strong run of ensemble and co-lead turns, Angela Bassett finally got the chance to shine as a true lead, delivering a well-rounded, self-empowering performance that viewers have rarely seen in the subsequent quarter-century.
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Charles Laughton was not the first film actor to play a real-life character on screen – far from it. But his performance influenced the trajectory of the biopic genre, demonstrating the full potential of actors to redefine historical figures in the public imagination.
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The story of this 1979 Kennedy assassination satire is as crazy as its plot. Ahead of a new restoration and re-release, a look back at this hidden gem.
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In the early days of hip hop, the nascent genre had a visual counterpart in graffiti culture. Just as the spare […]
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In anticipation of “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” we look at another film where a vampire books passage, this time through space (and in the buff).
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David Lynch’s debut is a nightmare vision of what to expect when you’re expecting.
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Thirty years ago, ‘The Wedding Banquet’ introduced audiences to Ang Lee’s cinematic musings on repression and passion.
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Once upon a time, Miramax tried to go epic, distributing (and, of course, demanding cuts to) Bernardo Bertolucci’s post-“Last Emperor” opus.
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This 1947 British hit, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Kanopy, sits snugly on the hinge between film noir and kitchen sink drama.
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When Steven Spielberg made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ 25 years ago, the casting of Tom Hanks in a WWII epic was an unconventional one. In retrospect, it was not only inspired but necessary.
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