Woody Allen’s 1985 masterwork is uproariously funny – and a thoughtful examination of reality, fantasy, and the blurry space in between.
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Peter Bogdanovich’s 1981 screwball comedy (now streaming on Max) is a lightweight soufflé of a movie, inadvertently shrouded in tragedy.
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Fifty years after its release, the controversial drama still has the power to shock and unnerve.
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Love makes a mess in John Cassavetes’ 1971 romance, now streaming (a rarity) on Amazon Prime Video.
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While the Cold War thawed in the late ’80s, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki chronicled that most unlikely of rock bands, the Leningrad Cowboys.
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Fassbinder’s “Querelle” got razzed for its music, but it was a bold and unapologetically homoerotic final statement from the iconoclastic filmmaker.
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The ’50s greaser drama, currently streaming on Netflix, boasts fascinating early turns by Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler.
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A fun example of how cool and influential a film can be without being particularly good, director Arthur Ripley’s Thunder Road […]
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An appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.
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A valentine to the influential (and Kubrick-approved) 1979 romantic comedy from writer/director/star Albert Brooks.
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Martin Scorsese’s 1974 Oscar winner, now streaming on Netflix, is an outlier in his filmography… or is it?
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Alfred 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.
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