This month’s look at the misdeeds of Miramax revisits the 1996 ensemble guy-talk comedy, in which one of the titular characters was… a 13-year-old Natalie Portman.
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Before he left this plane of existence last month at age 96, Kenneth Anger laid his personal obsessions bare in a collection of experimental films that still captivate viewers today.
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Kim Ki-young’s 1960 delight (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) isn’t just one of the formative films of Korean cinema – it’s one of the key precursors of the erotic thriller.
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Sergio Leone’s 1968 Western epic is less an exploration of genre tropes than an expansion and explosion of them.
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The Jim Carrey vehicle was a commercial smash on its release twenty years ago, but even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its unique appeal.
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The Pixar classic ‘Finding Nemo’ turns twenty this month. A look at the film’s enduring legacy, and how the its depiction of the ocean captivates children and adults alike.
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A look back at Sam Peckinpah’s violent but meditative “definitive statement” on the Western.
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The 1955 coming-of-age drama (streaming on HBO Max) is uniquely of its moment – in every sense of the phrase.
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To mark the 100th anniversary of director Seijun Suzuki’s birth, the Criterion Channel has programmed a 14-film series spanning the breadth of his dynamic career.
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Twenty-five years ago, both Christina Ricci and queer cinema noisily came of age in this crass, unapologetic sex comedy.
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George Lucas’s sophomore feature and first big hit (now streaming on Netflix) is a complicated examination of nostalgia and coming of age.
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A look at the groundbreaking performer, who became a sensation on stage and screen in the early 20th century.
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