Category: Classic Corner

In anticipation for a new Preston Sturges retrospective, here’s a look at the director’s subversive screwball one-two punch from 1944.

As awards season approaches, we look back at one of Elizabeth Taylor’s most misunderstood performances.

This loose and engaging Eugene O’Neill adaptation from John Ford (in the middle of one of cinema’s great hot streaks) was the playwright’s own favorite film take on his work.

Francois Truffaut’s debut feature is one of the seminal texts of the French New Wave, and a thornier-than-usual examination of a childhood informed by the cinema.

The story goes that producer Walter Wanger came to Frank Borzage with a title, two pages of a script and a […]

Louis Malle’s solo directorial debut remains a stunning, scorching slice of French New Wave noir.

This 1973 adaptation of the Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake) novel beautifully captures the stark quality of his distinctive prose. Now streaming on HBO Max:

René Clair’s 1942 supernatural romantic comedy is the perfect Halloween viewing choice for anyone who isn’t into scary movies.

Producer Roger Corman gave director Amy Holden Jones free reign to craft a self-aware, feminist-tilting slasher movie (from a script by lesbian activist and author Rita Mae Brown). The results were exploitation magic.

On its sixty-fifth anniversary, we look back at the greatest collaboration between husband and wife team Federico Fellini and Guilietta Masina.

Jean-Luc Godard called it his “second first film,” and while his 1980 drama diverged from his ’70s experiments, it was no ‘Breathless’ either.