Scenic Routes

  • After Dark, My Sweet

    Scenic Routes After Dark, My Sweet

    How do you play crazy without getting too crazy about it?

    February 21, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Seven Chances

    Scenic Routes Seven Chances

    Buster Keaton runs for his life. Probably literally.

    February 7, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • The Godfather

    Scenic Routes The Godfather

    As Michael and Sollozzo speak in Sicilian, Francis Ford Coppola shows that what they’re actually saying doesn’t matter.

    January 24, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Everyone Else

    Scenic Routes Everyone Else

    One of the most striking movie moments of 2010 appeared in a German movie hardly anyone saw.

    January 10, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • A Midnight Clear

    Scenic Routes A Midnight Clear

    A largely forgotten World War II movie from 1992 offers a moving Christmas moment.

    December 27, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • Kiss Me Deadly

    Scenic Routes Kiss Me Deadly

    Mike Hammer, MacGuffins and Whatsits.

    December 13, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Afterschool

    Scenic Routes Afterschool

    A first-time director brings it all into—and out of—focus with a single scene.

    November 29, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Moonstruck

    Scenic Routes Moonstruck

    A memorable moment from the Golden Age of Cage.

    November 15, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Wages Of Fear

    Scenic Routes The Wages Of Fear

    Steady… Steady…

    November 1, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • Grizzly Man

    Scenic Routes Grizzly Man

    Werner Herzog has something to say.

    October 18, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Jaws

    Scenic Routes Jaws

    It’s a bad day on Amity Island.

    October 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • 7 Men From Now

    Scenic Routes 7 Men From Now

    Once in a while, it’s the indoor scenes that make a Western.

    September 20, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • The Purple Rose Of Cairo

    Scenic Routes The Purple Rose Of Cairo

    Stepping down from the silver screen.

    September 6, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Sita Sings The Blues

    Scenic Routes Sita Sings The Blues

    A single clip from a movie says so much more than any trailer—especially a clip this dynamic.

    August 23, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Scenic Routes 2001: A Space Odyssey

    HAL does not have time for you right now, okay?

    August 9, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • Bigger Than Life

    Scenic Routes Bigger Than Life

    James Mason is full of ideas. And cortisone. And madness.

    July 26, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Brazil

    Scenic Routes Brazil

    Bureaucracy and its renegades.

    July 12, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Headless Woman

    Scenic Routes The Headless Woman

    What did you just see? Wait, don’t answer yet.

    June 28, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • The Small Back Room

    Scenic Routes The Small Back Room

    Bottles and nightmares.

    June 14, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • “The Wrong Trousers”

    Scenic Routes “The Wrong Trousers”

    What is cinema? The expressive eyebrows of a cartoon dog may hold the answer.

    May 24, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • Citizen Ruth

    Scenic Routes Citizen Ruth

    There’s nothing to like about these characters, and that’s okay.

    May 10, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Badlands

    Scenic Routes Badlands

    April 26, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Scenic Routes Road To Perdition

    April 12, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Freaks

    Scenic Routes Freaks

    One of us... One of us...

    March 29, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Color Of Money

    Scenic Routes The Color Of Money

    When saying less says more.

    March 15, 2010 | 12:46pm -

  • Training Day

    Scenic Routes Training Day

    It's a bad day to be a rookie.

    March 1, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Bringing Up Baby

    Scenic Routes Bringing Up Baby

    Dogs, drag, and the fine art of the screwball.

    February 15, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Thin Blue Line

    Scenic Routes The Thin Blue Line

    Our column about great scenes in cinema explores the place where truth and art meet.

    February 1, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Scenic Routes Metropolis

    Mugging as the machinery breaks down.

    January 18, 2010 | 12:00pm -

  • eXistenZ

    Scenic Routes eXistenZ

    Dinner's here. Ready... Aim...

    January 4, 2010 | 12:05pm -