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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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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