Category: Classic Corner

In 1977, Paul Newman re-teamed with director George Roy Hill to make one of the all-time great sports comedies. It’s now streaming on Netflix.

Luchino Visconti’s 1963 epic is deeply rooted in Italian history, but also in its director’s personal and political struggles.

With this James Joyce adaptation, John Huston made his final film a love letter to his daughter.

Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective yarn, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a quintessential example of ’70s genre-busting bummer cinema.

Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates’s powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.

Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) was one of the most controversial films of its day—and has only grown more so in the intervening years.

“My Neighbor Totoro” is Hayao Miyazaki’s most notable work, weaving together themes that reverberate throughout his entire filmography.

Kim Ki-young’s 1960 delight (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) isn’t just one of the formative films of Korean cinema – it’s one of the key precursors of the erotic thriller.

Sergio Leone’s 1968 Western epic is less an exploration of genre tropes than an expansion and explosion of them.

The 1955 coming-of-age drama (streaming on HBO Max) is uniquely of its moment – in every sense of the phrase.

George Lucas’s sophomore feature and first big hit (now streaming on Netflix) is a complicated examination of nostalgia and coming of age.

George Romero only made one vampire film, but “Martin” might be the darkest movie he ever made.