Tag: classic corner

Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) remains as thorny and complicated as ever.

Ahead of a new biopic about Flannery O’Connor, we look back at the sole adaptation of her Southern Gothic classic.

Woody Allen’s 1985 masterwork is uproariously funny – and a thoughtful examination of reality, fantasy, and the blurry space in between.

Peter Bogdanovich’s 1981 screwball comedy (now streaming on Max) is a lightweight soufflé of a movie, inadvertently shrouded in tragedy.

Love makes a mess in John Cassavetes’ 1971 romance, now streaming (a rarity) on Amazon Prime Video.

While the Cold War thawed in the late ’80s, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki chronicled that most unlikely of rock bands, the Leningrad Cowboys.

Fassbinder’s “Querelle” got razzed for its music, but it was a bold and unapologetically homoerotic final statement from the iconoclastic filmmaker.

The ’50s greaser drama, currently streaming on Netflix, boasts fascinating early turns by Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler.

A fun example of how cool and influential a film can be without being particularly good, director Arthur Ripley’s Thunder Road […]

An appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.

A valentine to the influential (and Kubrick-approved) 1979 romantic comedy from writer/director/star Albert Brooks.