Since June is Pride Month, our latest look at the Weinstein legacy revisits the time a promising lesbian filmmaker was brought in to Miramax to helm a very bad bro comedy.
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When it came to bringing Robert Ludlum’s novel to the screen, casting the right actor made all the difference.
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Jean-Luc Godard called it his “second first film,” and while his 1980 drama diverged from his ’70s experiments, it was no ‘Breathless’ either.
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Though it hit theaters the same weekend as ‘Star Wars,’ and came in second in the year’s box office race, ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ has cast a much shorter shadow over contemporary culture. Let’s look at why.
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A look at two forgotten films the much-maligned filmmaker – and focus of a fascinating new biography – directed in the wake of ‘Heaven’s Gate.”
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Divorce, Canadian Style.
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With his new ‘Crimes of the Future’ out this Friday, we revisit one of the filmmaker’s most unusual but affecting works.
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Yippie kai-yay, melon farmer.
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On Ralph Bakshi’s blisteringly transgressive animated satire of American race relations, now streaming on The Criterion Channel.
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Roger Corman’s social thriller was released 60 years ago this week, but it feels as vital and urgent as today’s headlines.
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In light of his recent announcement of retirement, we look back at one of the least discussed (but most effective) Bruce Willis performances.
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When Michael Haneke remade his 1997 film ‘Funny Games’ 15 years ago, he joined a long, strange tradition of filmmakers remaking their own movies.
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