Tag: classic corner

When Robbie Robertson passed last month, he left behind arguably the greatest concert film ever made.

One of the greatest baseball movies of all time is about exploited players who can only assert their value by losing on purpose.

Alain Resnais’ 1959 drama, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, asks again-timely questions about dramatizing tragic events.

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.

David Lynch’s debut is a nightmare vision of what to expect when you’re expecting.

This 1947 British hit, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Kanopy, sits snugly on the hinge between film noir and kitchen sink drama.

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.

Luchino Visconti’s 1963 epic is deeply rooted in Italian history, but also in its director’s personal and political struggles.

With this James Joyce adaptation, John Huston made his final film a love letter to his daughter.

Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective yarn, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a quintessential example of ’70s genre-busting bummer cinema.

Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates’s powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.