Quentin Tarantino’s book “Cinema Speculation” got us nostalgic for that time, back in the late ‘90s, when Miramax just let him release whatever old exploitation oddities he felt like.
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Cale’s scores offer some insight into the development of his ideas, and should be viewed as an even more experimental facet of a peripatetic and engaging career.
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With ‘Possession’ finally available to stream, let’s take a look back at director Andrzej Zulawski’s early breakout film, a dark melodrama with its own cult following.
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The Blu-ray release (and re-release) of seven ’60s and ’70s titles from the French New Wave master effectively rebut his recent criticisms from the world’s foremost movie geek.
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Forty years on from its theatrical release, Bill Forsyth’s signature film still casts a heady spell, despite his own feelings about ‘the Brigadoon thing.’
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When it hit theaters on this day 25 years ago, “The Wedding Singer” seemed like another goofy Adam Sandler comedy. But it proved a hinge point in his long, often unpredictable career.
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One of queer cinema’s most outspoken voices, Derek Jarman has a career-spanning retrospective this month on The Criterion Channel.
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Movies about brazen gold-digging women flourished in the pre-Code era, and Jean Harlow and Barbara Stanwyck played two of the most vibrant and memorable.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s messiest and most divisive film found a director whose name is synonymous with control losing it, big time.
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Claude Chabrol’s ‘La Cérémonie’ and Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Live Flesh’ maintain the spirit of the British thriller novelist’s work, while adding their directors’ own personal touches.
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So Yong Kim’s achingly realist romantic drama is a cut above the usual Sundance indie romance fare.
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In her debut directorial effort, writer/director/star Elaine May proved love means never having to kill in cold blood.
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