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.
Looking Back
The first film in the Criterion Channel’s “High School Horror” collection proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters.
Looking Back
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.
Looking Back
When Robbie Robertson passed last month, he left behind arguably the greatest concert film ever made.
Looking Back
One of the greatest baseball movies of all time is about exploited players who can only assert their value by losing on purpose.
Looking Back
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.
Looking Back
Alain Resnais’ 1959 drama, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, asks again-timely questions about dramatizing tragic events.
Looking Back
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.
Looking Back
David Lynch’s debut is a nightmare vision of what to expect when you’re expecting.
Looking Back
This 1947 British hit, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Kanopy, sits snugly on the hinge between film noir and kitchen sink drama.
Looking Back
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.
Looking Back
Luchino Visconti’s 1963 epic is deeply rooted in Italian history, but also in its director’s personal and political struggles.
Looking Back
With this James Joyce adaptation, John Huston made his final film a love letter to his daughter.
Looking Back
Arthur Penn's 1975 detective yarn, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a quintessential example of '70s genre-busting bummer cinema.
Looking Back
Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates's powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.
