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Posts tagged with "classic corner"
Classic Corner: <i>Play Misty for Me</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: Play Misty for Me

Jan 27th, 2023
Clint Eastwood's 1971 thriller, now on Netflix, raises a question or two about what it means for a movie to be "dated."
War is Farce: Preston Sturges’s <i>The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek</i> and <i>Hail the Conquering Hero</i>
Zach Vasquez
Looking Back

War is Farce: Preston Sturges’s The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero

Jan 20th, 2023
In anticipation for a new Preston Sturges retrospective, here's a look at the director's subversive screwball one-two punch from 1944.
Classic Corner: <i>Identikit</i> (a.k.a. <i>The Driver’s Seat</i>)
Sara Batkie
Looking Back

Classic Corner: Identikit (a.k.a. The Driver’s Seat)

Jan 13th, 2023
As awards season approaches, we look back at one of Elizabeth Taylor's most misunderstood performances.
Classic Corner: <i>The Long Voyage Home</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: The Long Voyage Home

Jan 6th, 2023
This loose and engaging Eugene O'Neill adaptation from John Ford (in the middle of one of cinema's great hot streaks) was the playwright's own...
Classic Corner: <i>Fanny and Alexander</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: Fanny and Alexander

Dec 16th, 2022
As our yuletide movie week comes to a close, we recommend (well, at least for its first hour) Ingmar Bergman’s familial epic, now streaming on HBO...
Classic Corner: <i>The 400 Blows</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: The 400 Blows

Dec 9th, 2022
Francois Truffaut’s debut feature is one of the seminal texts of the French New Wave, and a thornier-than-usual examination of a childhood informed...
Classic Corner: <i>History is Made at Night</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: History is Made at Night

Dec 2nd, 2022
The story goes that producer Walter Wanger came to Frank Borzage with a title, two pages of a script and a start date scheduled for four weeks away....
Classic Corner: <i>Elevator to the Gallows</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: Elevator to the Gallows

Nov 18th, 2022
Louis Malle’s solo directorial debut remains a stunning, scorching slice of French New Wave noir.
Classic Corner: <i>1776</i>
Will DiGravio
Looking Back

Classic Corner: 1776

Nov 11th, 2022
Fifty years later, the 1972 musical ‘1776’ remains a film worth watching, both for the honest and dishonest ways it portrays American history.
Classic Corner: <i>The Outfit</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: The Outfit

Nov 4th, 2022
This 1973 adaptation of the Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake) novel beautifully captures the stark quality of his distinctive prose. Now...
Classic Corner: <i>I Married a Witch</i>
Josh Bell
Looking Back

Classic Corner: I Married a Witch

Oct 28th, 2022
René Clair’s 1942 supernatural romantic comedy is the perfect Halloween viewing choice for anyone who isn’t into scary movies.
Classic Corner: <i>The Slumber Party Massacre</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: The Slumber Party Massacre

Oct 21st, 2022
Producer Roger Corman gave director Amy Holden Jones free reign to craft a self-aware, feminist-tilting slasher movie (from a script by lesbian...
Classic Corner: <i>Nights of Cabiria</i>
Sara Batkie
Looking Back

Classic Corner: Nights of Cabiria

Oct 14th, 2022
On its sixty-fifth anniversary, we look back at the greatest collaboration between husband and wife team Federico Fellini and Guilietta Masina.
Classic Corner: <i>The Velvet Vampire</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: The Velvet Vampire

Oct 7th, 2022
Stephanie Rothman’s captivating 1971 mixture of horror and sexploitation both embraces and inverts the venerable tropes of the vampire narrative.
Classic Corner: <i>Getting Straight</i>
Sean Burns
Looking Back

Classic Corner: Getting Straight

Sep 30th, 2022
The 1970 Elliott Gould / Richard Rush collaboration, now streaming on Amazon Prime, is a prickly examination of early '70s campus politics and...
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