With Peter Weir announcing his retirement from filmmaking, a look back at his first feature, the pitch-black comedy ‘The Cars That Ate Paris.’
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In between the two “Godfather” films, Francis Ford Coppola made this down and dirty surveillance thriller. Released fifty years ago this week, it might just be his masterpiece.
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In “The Best Man,” a politician played by Henry Fonda considers accusing another, played by Cliff Robertson, of being a “homosexual.” It was the first time the word was used in a major movie.
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Dev Patel’s directorial debut is wildly ambitious – perhaps too much so for its own good.
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In five films of varying quality, Patricia Highsmith’s sociopathic con artist has proved to be highly adaptable, both personally and artistically.
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When Iris Apfel died in March, she left behind an improbable legacy as—to use her words—“a geriatric starlet.” After living in relative anonymity as a textiles importer to the upper class, Apfel rose to the upper echelons of fashion celebrity when the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art curated a show from […]
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Remembering one one the great character actors of modern cinema, in the wake of his passing at age 88.
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Steve Spielberg’s debut theatrical feature, released 50 years ago this week, isn’t exactly a Rosetta Stone. But it hints at themes and ideas that would preoccupy his subsequent work.
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Love makes a mess in John Cassavetes’ 1971 romance, now streaming (a rarity) on Amazon Prime Video.
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Across four recent movies, French filmmaker Julien Leclercq has established himself as an action auteur with seriousness and purpose.
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Alice Rohrwacher unearths deeper meaning in this magical realist film about an English graverobber looking for his lost love in Italy.
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With Kevin Spacey trying to make a comeback with his new film ‘Peter Five Eight,’ this month’s Harvey’s Hellhole revisits his 1996 directorial debut, a familiar, quietly chaotic bit of real-time pulp that’s the least embarrassing thing he’s done in his career.
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