In Luis Buñuel’s overlooked adaptation, the frenzied emotions of Heathcliff and Cathy are transported to the barren plains of Mexico.
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In Luis Buñuel’s overlooked adaptation, the frenzied emotions of Heathcliff and Cathy are transported to the barren plains of Mexico.
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Remaking “Psycho” was always a fool’s errand, but Gus Van Sant’s infamous shot-for-shot redo is a fascinating experiment in reinterpreting a classic.
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Hollywood has always struggled to adapt the works of the legendary Stephen Sondheim to film, and Tim Burton’s take on “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” shows both the benefits and risks.
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Zhang Yimou’s début kicked off a legendary partnership with actress Gong Li, and signaled the beginning of a new era of Chinese cinema.
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In Richard Kelly’s notorious flop, the fevered landscape of post-9/11 America gets the ambitious and aggravating portrait it deserves.
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In Joyce Chopra’s adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story, growing up is hard to do — especially when there’s a predator knocking on your door.
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The cycle of violence is grotesque and stupid as director Miike takes movie gore to depraved new depths.
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This 1985 hit seemed like a weird film for late-era John Huston, but its dark heart and nihilistic view on romance fit perfectly into his rich filmography.
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Fassbinder’s riff on “Sunset Boulevard” depicted the decline of a movie-star in post-war Germany with stunning cinematography and a total sense of hopelessness.
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The most famous Iranian feminist vampire Western is somehow far cooler than that description reveals.
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David Cronenberg’s oppressively bleak drama “Spider” is often seen as un-Cronenbergian, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Philip Kaufman’s dramatization of a torrid affair between literary legends was the first-ever NC-17 movie, but this erotic drama deserves to be known for more than that.
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