Duke Mitchell’s gonzo exploitation masterwork was once thought lost and unsalvageable. Now, it’s widely available to see. But are you ready for it?
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Lionel Barrymore plays a delightfully arrogant murderer in this cruelly efficient piece of pre-Code nastiness from nearly a century ago.
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Larry Cohen’s 1976 cult favorite is a cuckoo-bananas mash-up of cop movie, supernatural thriller, and religious meditation.
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A hard-boiled detective uncovers a conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Anthony Mann’s unique fusion of history and film noir, released 75 years ago this week.
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What initially looked like (and was probably intended as) a dopey Todd Phillips-style comedy instead plays now as an indictment of the assumptions of the university system.
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Why did Alan Parker’s working-class musical mean so much to young people in the pre-Nirvana 1990s, and how could it resonate with digital natives coming of age today?
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This 1979 comedy-drama is a real oddity: a film about a woman from a writer known for his stories about men, from a director known primarily as a screenwriter, with a serious supporting turn from one of the era’s biggest comedy stars.
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Starting at the BBC, Ken Russell tested the boundaries of the music biopic, culminating in 1975’s “Lisztomania,” one of his wildest cinematic creations.
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This tragically unseen 1976 gem tapped into a unique pre-AIDS moment in queer history.
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Thirty years ago this summer, Miramax took on the multiplex with three counter-programmers.
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“That’s the way I became a filmmaker. You get tired of going to the movies and seeing stuff that you don’t […]
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Seventy years later, Nicholas Ray’s harrowing melodrama about pharmacology, middle class anxiety, and paternal madness is more relevant than ever.
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