Secret Cinema

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  Secret Cinema Orson Welles spouts authoritative nonsense in The Man Who Saw Tomorrow 

  Predicting the future—and selling frozen peas—demands gravitas. 

  June 28, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  Secret Cinema In There’s Always Tomorrow, Douglas Sirk turns his “frankly feminine” spotlight on a man 

  A little-seen but deeply felt Douglas Sirk melodrama puts his usual “frankly feminine” focus on a man played by Fred MacMurray. 

  June 7, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Secret Cinema George Romero’s ’70s feature Season Of The Witch might feature witches, and might not 

  George Romero’s telling portrait of ’70s anxiety and suburban discontent doesn’t really feature witchcraft—or does it? 

  April 26, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Eroticizing teen debauchery the honest, direct way in 1980’s Foxes

  All films about teen debauchery are meant to be titillating on some level, but Adrian Lyne’s Foxes was more up-front about it than most. 

  April 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Rock-A-Bye Baby

  Jerry Lewis’ gift for comedy and taste for sentiment clashed throughout his career, sometimes within a single movie.

  March 15, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema King Kong (1976) 

  A Kong that aches to be cutting-edge ends up being a throwback to a simpler sort of monster movie. 

  February 23, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema The Story Of G.I. Joe (1945) 

  A World War II film made while the conflict still raged doesn’t stray far from real life. 

  February 2, 2012 | 12:01pm -

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  Secret Cinema I Wanna Hold Your Hand

  Robert Zemeckis looks at a moment when a bunch of screaming girls pointed the way to the future.

  December 15, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Mondo Cane (1962) 

  How an infamous ’60s shockumentary set the stage for today’s reality TV and other mixtures of fact and fantasy. 

  November 17, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Faust (1926)

  That someone would film Faust was inevitable. That F.W. Murnau did so was fortunate. 

  October 27, 2011 | 12:01pm -

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  Secret Cinema They Came To Rob Las Vegas

  A vision of Las Vegas, Spanish-style. 

  October 6, 2011 | 12:02pm -

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  Secret Cinema God Of Gamblers

  A character thriller turned comedy turned action-adventure highlights the anything-can-happen spirit of Hong Kong’s most robust movies.

  September 15, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Murders In The Zoo

  Two types of horror mark a movie from an era of pre-Code nastiness.

  August 25, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Breathless 

  A backward-looking American remake of a B-movie-inspired Godard film finds romance among the references. 

  August 4, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Man Hunt (1941)

  Fritz Lang’s anti-Nazi propaganda film paints its Hitler-hunting hero in shades of gray.

  July 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Secret Cinema Gas-s-s-s 

  New column: Let’s talk about the films no one’s talking about. First up, Roger Corman’s 1971 hippie apocalypse Gas-s-s-s.

  June 23, 2011 | 12:00am -