Agnès Varda made her directorial debut not with a short, but the feature “La Pointe Courte,” first screened at Cannes 70 years ago.
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Released 75 years ago this week, Nicholas Ray’s brutal, bleak noir features Humphrey Bogart at his hard-boiled best.
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Six decades ago, Richard Lester won the Palme d’Or and directed the Beatles in their second feature. Both films show off his knack for comic invention.
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John Schlesinger’s adaptation of Nathanael West’s novella is one of the most caustic takedowns of classic Hollywood the 70’s produced. Maligned on its initial release, it’s ripe for rediscovery by modern audiences.
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Riding the wave of horror remakes in the early 2000s, “Non-Stop” director Jaume Collet-Serra’s debut film is very much a time capsule of 2005 (See Paris Die!) and a timeless young-people-in-peril chiller.
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A look back at Terry Zwigoff’s brilliant and disturbing documentary about the life and family of America’s greatest underground comix artist.
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A quarter century after its apparent sell-by date, the campy, Paul Bartel-directed black comedy/action/sci-fi mash-up remains uproariously funny and stubbornly relevant.
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Alex Gibney’s documentary, released 20 years ago this week, tells the story of massive corporate fraud as both very complicated and infuriatingly simple.
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Mickey Spillane’s most famous creation headlined one of the most pitch-black noirs ever made – and cracked a few heads in the process.
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That a picture this great isn’t seen as one of John Ford’s go-to “classics” is simply a commentary on the high quality of his entire filmography.
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Released 95 years ago, this Oscar-winning pre-Code drama stars Norma Shearer as a strikingly bold and independent career woman who leaves her husband behind.
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“Marty” may have been released 70 years ago today, but its ideas about masculinity and solitude are refreshingly timely.
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