“A lightweight story.” That was what Hitchcock called his 1955 romantic thriller: “It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.” In his […]
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Sofia Coppola’s career is nearly universally concerned with the unspoken loneliness of womanhood, and her directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, often […]
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A coming-of-age film without a slut is like an ice-cream without sprinkles: there’s just something missing. She’s the ‘easy’ girl who’s […]
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“Life, every now and then, behaves as if it had seen too many bad movies.” So notes Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) […]
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When Mary Harron’s American Psycho hit theaters twenty years ago, it sent shockwaves through mainstream cinema. It was daring, intelligent, and […]
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“I’m not a field agent,” he insists. “I just read books.” And while that might be true, he’s going to have […]
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Of all the strange things to be found throughout the films of David Lynch, one of the most startling comes at […]
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I selected Hud as the inaugural entry for “Classics Corner,” a new weekly feature spotlighting a pre-1980 film newly available on […]
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HandMade Films was formed by George Harrison and his business manager, Denis O’Brien, for the express purpose of bankrolling Monty Python’s […]
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With a Friend Like Harry (2000) is in essence a thriller, but it chills with the creeping dread of a horror […]
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Blue Steel feels like an overlooked entry in Kathryn Bigelow’s filmography. It doesn’t have the online appeal of Point Break, from […]
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“So open up the window and let me breathe.I said open up the window, shh-shh-shh-shh-shh, and let me breathe.I’m looking down […]
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