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 Max and the Criterion Channel.
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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 by the cinema.
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The story goes that producer Walter Wanger came to Frank Borzage with a title, two pages of a script and a […]
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Louis Malle’s solo directorial debut remains a stunning, scorching slice of French New Wave noir.
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Fifty years later, the 1972 musical ‘1776’ remains a film worth watching, both for the honest and dishonest ways it portrays American history.
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This 1973 adaptation of the Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake) novel beautifully captures the stark quality of his distinctive prose. Now streaming on HBO Max:
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René Clair’s 1942 supernatural romantic comedy is the perfect Halloween viewing choice for anyone who isn’t into scary movies.
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Producer Roger Corman gave director Amy Holden Jones free reign to craft a self-aware, feminist-tilting slasher movie (from a script by lesbian activist and author Rita Mae Brown). The results were exploitation magic.
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On its sixty-fifth anniversary, we look back at the greatest collaboration between husband and wife team Federico Fellini and Guilietta Masina.
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Stephanie Rothman’s captivating 1971 mixture of horror and sexploitation both embraces and inverts the venerable tropes of the vampire narrative.
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The 1970 Elliott Gould / Richard Rush collaboration, now streaming on Amazon Prime, is a prickly examination of early ’70s campus politics and activism.
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The 1967 classic, now streaming on HBO Max, is so much more than its famous climax – it’s a superb example of how to turn the theatrical into a cinematic spectacle.
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