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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We kick off our week of anti-Valentine’s Day recommendations with this bleak, bitter New York City drama from director Jack Garfein.
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With Jerzy Skolimowski’s name back in the headlines for his Oscar-nominated “EO”, we look back at one of his early provocations.
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Clint Eastwood’s 1971 thriller, now on Netflix, raises a question or two about what it means for a movie to be “dated.”
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Since Sundance Film Festival season is upon us, this month’s “Harvey’s Hellhole” recalls one of the many times Miramax forked over a lot of money for a Sundance hit they eventually and unceremoniously dumped into theaters.
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‘Casablanca’ was released 80 years ago today, and there’s a reason why its “La Marseillaise” scene is so powerful: it’s filled with actors who were themselves displaced by the Nazi regime.
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In anticipation for a new Preston Sturges retrospective, here’s a look at the director’s subversive screwball one-two punch from 1944.
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