There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and they’re not necessarily the most overtly surreal ones: A blind man’s stare-down with a rooster after he has been knocked to the ground. A pigeon being rubbed on a sick woman’s back. A legless […]
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In honor of the actor’s 100th birthday this week, we look back at a role that offered him the rare chance to underplay his brash persona.
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Cyndi Lauper’s willingness to experiment in different media has played a role in her career-long ubiquity…including a side hustle as a character actress.
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Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.
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This little-seen 1973 TV movie is one of the most sophisticated adaptations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
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Joachim Trier’s latest is a one of the year’s best, a staggeringly poignant and emotionally complicated story of family, art, and their intersections.
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Between Oscar winners, the late Diane Keaton co-starred in a send-up of Russian literature that showed off her prodigious comedic gifts.
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Our mini-reviews of “Icefall,” “300 Letters,” “Wormtown,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.
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On page 89 of Abel Ferrara’s new memoir Scene, the director provides an enthusiastically detailed description of how to make crack cocaine. By the end of the paragraph he’s pleading with the reader: “Don’t try it. Rip this recipe out of the book and burn it. You have to be Dante to describe where one […]
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Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.”
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Richard Linklater’s chronicle of the making of Godard’s “Breathless” is a charming valentine to the creative process, though some of its notes are a touch obvious.
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Classier, costlier Stephen King adaptations may have followed, but this 1990 quickie has aged into a testament to his begrudging talent for horror at its most shamelessly grotesque.
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