Even the late, great filmmaker’s critical and commercial “failures” are compelling experiments in adaptation and genre.
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On the anniversary of the action smash’s release, a look back at the attitudes of that precarious era, and why it was such effective propaganda.
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It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of the movie (now streaming on HBO Max) is pretty great too.
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Mike Nichols never made a musical. But in his adaptation of Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel, he came very close.
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The contemporary music and cultural bookmarks of the two films – released within a week of each other twenty years ago – weren’t inserted in laziness or error, but to better connect modern audiences with stories of the distant past.
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When it hit theaters 25 years ago, critics dismissed it as an empty blockbuster. But looking back, ‘Twister’ has more heart and soul than it gets credit for.
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Well, the ‘Paddington 2’/’Citizen Kane’ Rotten Tomatoes story did one thing: it gave ‘Kane’ fans a new villain, after years of jeering this, its Best Picture usurper.
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In 1982, synthesizer innovator Wendy Carlos got the opportunity to play in a giant sandbox, creating a combination orchestral/synth score for Disney’s big-budget adventure ‘Tron.’ Complications ensued.
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In the inaugural edition of our new column spotlighting great movies that Harvey Weinstein tried to bury, a look back at Zhang Yimou’s wuxia marvel ‘Hero,’ which sat on the Miramax shelf for two-plus years.
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The 1974 drama – now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime Video – offers an uncommonly insightful (and often unforgiving) peek into the mind of the compulsive gambler.
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How Tony Scott reinvigorated his style in the 1990s with spiritual sequels to three 1970s classics.
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Towards a unifying theory of cinematic burnouts.
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