No two films could capture the range of the late Jackson’s talent but her Oscar winning roles in ‘Women in Love’ and ‘A Touch of Class’ are a great place to start.
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Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective yarn, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a quintessential example of ’70s genre-busting bummer cinema.
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1960s ‘monster mags’ gave us the movies we loved – and a welcome sense of community as well.
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From the start of his directing career, Pier Paolo Pasolini paid close attention to the plight of those on the bottom rungs of society.
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Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates’s powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.
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Gus Van Sant’s 1995 satirical thriller proved (for the first of many times) that the then-Mrs. Cruise was much more than just a pretty face.
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Otto Preminger and Jean Seberg’s second collaboration – a queasy father-daughter tale set on the French Riviera – is perfect summer viewing for misanthropes.
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Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) was one of the most controversial films of its day—and has only grown more so in the intervening years.
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Thirty-five years ago, Penelope Spheeris encapsulated the past, present, and future of hair metal in a documentary filled with glorious excess.
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On its 85th anniversary, a close reading of the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn romance, and what its famously fluid stars and director were trying to tell us.
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“My Neighbor Totoro” is Hayao Miyazaki’s most notable work, weaving together themes that reverberate throughout his entire filmography.
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Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel has beautiful imagery and a passionate certainty that expands our ideals of the possible.
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