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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A new Indonesian remake of ‘Possession’ is the latest ill-advised reimagining of Andrzej Zulawski’s deeply personal masterpiece.
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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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This early feature from Francis Ford Coppola is far from his best, but it boasts several signs of a genuine, budding talent.
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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 Miramax and Dimension’s various re-cuttings and re-packagings of the works of the legendary martial artist and screen comedian.
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In the wake of the massive success of “Sinners,” a look back at another genre-bending film about the mythical power of blues music.
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The 1972 experimental drama serves as both a valentine to the talent and gifts of Edie Sedgwick, and an elegy following her tragically early death.
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Claude Berri’s epic two-parter, recently added to the Criterion Collection, is the sort of meticulous historical recreation that doesn’t get made enough anymore.
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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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