From Silents to the Seventies: Footlight Parade
The closest thing to an acid trip in 1930s Hollywood was a Busby Berkeley musical number, and Footlight Parade is one of the filmmaker’s most potent hallucinogens.
The closest thing to an acid trip in 1930s Hollywood was a Busby Berkeley musical number, and Footlight Parade is one of the filmmaker’s most potent hallucinogens.
Jezebel may be a poor man’s Gone with the Wind, but it’s still a very rich cinematic experience, thanks to Bette Davis’ Oscar-winning performance and William Wyler’s superior direction. Fans of Golden Age c...
Gaslights may be obsolete, but the verb inspired by those flickering flames – and George Cukor’s classic 1944 thriller – is still very much in vogue today. Seventy-five years after its premiere, Gaslight remains a finely cra...
Beautiful and devastating, Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) stands as one of the prime examples of poetic realism and remains a classic of French cinema.
Mystical, thought-provoking, occasionally witty, and a bit weird, Death Takes a Holiday parlays a fascinating premise into a strangely compelling and spiritual film. If you’ve met – and liked – Joe Black, you should get to k...
Hold back those tears. The Best Picture nominee Hold Back the Dawn remains a classic romantic weepie, but beneath its glossy veneer lies a substantive examination of a topic that’s still making front-page news 80 years later...
The Last Movie almost was the last movie for Dennis Hopper. As much as Easy Rider set him up to be a powerhouse director, his follow-up was a notorious fiasco that nearly destroyed Hopper’s career. Little-seen for decades, t...
Shirley MacLaine’s irrepressible vivacity and Bob Fosse’s iconic choreography sweeten Sweet Charity, but the lumbering story of a not-so-happy hooker’s quest for love leaves a slightly sour aftertaste.
Sometimes, even filmmakers can be wrong about their own movies. Usually in these cases, the creators have a higher opinion of their work than anyone else does. Steven Soderbergh’s 1995 heist thriller The Underneath, however,...
With its confusing and frankly meaningless title, cable TV origins, and mostly B-level stars, The Last Seduction largely flew under viewers’ radars back in 1994. Fortunately, the movie holds up remarkably well as a darkly co...
If you can’t make it to Rome or Venice anytime soon, check out Three Coins in the Fountain. It’s the next best thing to being there. This lightweight romance about the affairs of a trio of American expatriates living l...
In the span of barely over one year from May 1980 to August 1981, Lawrence Kasdan saw his first two produced screenplays, for The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, become huge, iconic hits, and his own directorial d...