The twists and controversies of Neil Jordan’s political thriller kept most studios far away — but proved catnip to the Miramax boys.
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As we celebrate what would have been the iconic character actor’s 100th birthday, it’s his smallest roles that often left the largest impression.
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Peter O’Toole was an eight-time Oscar nominee and a stage legend. He did pretty well for himself, all things considered. Nevertheless, […]
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With Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” out this month, a look at a somewhat looser adaptation of Homer’s epic poem.
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Eighty years after its initial release, Jacques Tournier’s underrated ensemble Western is ripe for canonization.
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Made in anticipation of Y2K, Tsai Ming-liang’s 1998 film is a prophetic survey of loneliness amidst disease and climate change.
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Richard Linklater’s animated take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel remains disturbingly relevant two decades later.
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Don’t let Harvey Weinstein win. Here’s why James Gray’s period drama, which the disgraced distributor attempted to bury over a decade ago, deserves to be recognized as both a masterpiece and a canonical work of American cinema.
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Often viewed as his most “normal” film, David Lynch’s sophomore feature is as Lynchian as what came before and after it.
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Degaussed documents, time travel, stunt-casting: And you thought Freedom 250 was a fiasco.
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A commercial disappointment on its release in the summer of 1986, John Carpenter’s action comedy has proven to have remarkable staying power.
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David Hughes’s chronicle of the disastrous production of the notorious Bruce Willis bomb is a funny, informative page-turner — and a lament for the persona (and even the kind of film) that it unceremoniously ended.
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