In response to a surprising Oscar win, Luis Buñuel doubled down on thumbing his nose at convention.
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The late, great Gena Rowlands crafts one of her finest and most complex performances as an actor under the influence
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Cary Grant shows off his acrobatic skills in Frank Capra’s ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’, which turns 80 this month. Here’s a look at this masterful blend of screwball comedy and dark satire.
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When Carol Reed’s classic thriller unspooled in London cinemas 75 years ago this week, it gripped viewers with its cynical view of a war that was still quite fresh in the mind.
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Four months before ‘Black Christmas’ invented the modern slasher, director Bob Clark dragged a much older kind of horror story through the foxholes of Vietnam to even more disturbing effect.
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The recently-departed actress’s four films for Miramax in the mid-to-late 1990s weren’t among her crowning achievements, but they also showed that she never phoned it in.
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The charming Julie Andrews may have a reputation for being essentially a piece of confectionery in human form, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t capable of delivering the most genteel burn in awards speech history.
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John Huston’s 1982 adaptation of the Broadway smash is a bit of a mess, but an undeniably engaging one.
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A new 4K restoration of Hitch’s penultimate feature gives us a chance to look at this ugly, mean-spirited masterpiece with fresh eyes.
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Did the American giallo begin with Alan J. Pakula’s 1972 thriller?
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“With the DNC returning to Chicago for the first time since 1968, Haskell Wexler’s indelible chronicle of that tempestuous year has never been more relevant.
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John M. Stahl’s Technicolor Noir (the “Gone Girl” of its day) remains a chilling and effective psychological thriller.
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