Fassbinder’s “Querelle” got razzed for its music, but it was a bold and unapologetically homoerotic final statement from the iconoclastic filmmaker.
Read moreThe ’50s greaser drama, currently streaming on Netflix, boasts fascinating early turns by Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler.
Read moreA fun example of how cool and influential a film can be without being particularly good, director Arthur Ripley’s Thunder Road […]
Read moreAn appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.
Read moreA valentine to the influential (and Kubrick-approved) 1979 romantic comedy from writer/director/star Albert Brooks.
Read moreMartin Scorsese’s 1974 Oscar winner, now streaming on Netflix, is an outlier in his filmography… or is it?
Read moreAlfred Hitchcock’s gripping, suspenseful morality play about shipwreck survivors during World War II is just as relevant now as when it was released 80 years ago.
Read moreNorman Jewison’s 1979 courtroom comedy/drama, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, features Al Pacino at his roaring, twitching, sweating best.
Read moreRecently name-checked by Emma Stone as an inspiration for “Poor Things,” this Czech New Wave classic deserves a much bigger audience.
Read moreDirector Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” follow-up was 1973’s “Charley Varrick” (now streaming on Netflix), a lean, mean, nasty little heist thriller starring… Walter Matthau?
Read moreFrank Capra’s touching and fantastical ode to triumph of the human spirit is a beloved holiday classic. But it’s also a tough and dark story about fate that fits right in line with the movement known as film noir.
Read moreOn its 40th anniversary, an exploration of what James L. Brooks’s Oscar winner gets right – and other weepies don’t.
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