Tag: classic corner

While the Cold War thawed in the late ’80s, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki chronicled that most unlikely of rock bands, the Leningrad Cowboys.

Fassbinder’s “Querelle” got razzed for its music, but it was a bold and unapologetically homoerotic final statement from the iconoclastic filmmaker.

The ’50s greaser drama, currently streaming on Netflix, boasts fascinating early turns by Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler.

A fun example of how cool and influential a film can be without being particularly good, director Arthur Ripley’s Thunder Road […]

An appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.

A valentine to the influential (and Kubrick-approved) 1979 romantic comedy from writer/director/star Albert Brooks.

Martin Scorsese’s 1974 Oscar winner, now streaming on Netflix, is an outlier in his filmography… or is it?

Norman Jewison’s 1979 courtroom comedy/drama, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, features Al Pacino at his roaring, twitching, sweating best.

Recently name-checked by Emma Stone as an inspiration for “Poor Things,” this Czech New Wave classic deserves a much bigger audience.

Director Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” follow-up was 1973’s “Charley Varrick” (now streaming on Netflix), a lean, mean, nasty little heist thriller starring… Walter Matthau?