Looking Back
Robert Redford and George Roy Hill's 1975 reunion (now streaming on Netflix) is a fascinating experiment in tonal shifts and audience empathy.
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The first film in the Criterion Channel’s “High School Horror” collection proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters.
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The city of Venice has been the setting for many macabre tales. With "Don’t Look Now," director Nicolas Roeg told one of its most chilling.
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When Robbie Robertson passed last month, he left behind arguably the greatest concert film ever made.
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One of the greatest baseball movies of all time is about exploited players who can only assert their value by losing on purpose.
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In honor of its seventieth anniversary, we look back at a 'don't-make-them-like-they-used-to' romance that probably couldn't be made today at all.
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Alain Resnais’ 1959 drama, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, asks again-timely questions about dramatizing tragic events.
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Charles Laughton was not the first film actor to play a real-life character on screen – far from it. But his performance influenced the trajectory of the biopic genre, demonstrating the full potential of actors to redefine historical figures in the public imagination.
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David Lynch’s debut is a nightmare vision of what to expect when you’re expecting.
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This 1947 British hit, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Kanopy, sits snugly on the hinge between film noir and kitchen sink drama.
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In 1977, Paul Newman re-teamed with director George Roy Hill to make one of the all-time great sports comedies. It's now streaming on Netflix.
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Luchino Visconti’s 1963 epic is deeply rooted in Italian history, but also in its director’s personal and political struggles.
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With this James Joyce adaptation, John Huston made his final film a love letter to his daughter.
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Arthur Penn's 1975 detective yarn, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a quintessential example of '70s genre-busting bummer cinema.
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Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates's powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.