For those who know Dr. Strangelove well, here’s a fun experiment: Watch it with the sound off, imagining that you’ve…
Originally released in 1973, René Laloux’s animated sci-fi parable Fantastic Planet still looks strikingly alien, over…
In 1931, with a handful of silent shorts and features under his belt, director Jean Renoir made a tentative transition…
Originally released at a time of national anxiety—four months before Pearl Harbor—the comic fantasy Here Comes Mr.…
When a director settles on a unique vision of the world and then sticks to it forever after, early movies that don’t…
A few years ago, Rian Johnson, who’s currently shooting the next Star Wars installment, joked on Twitter that “Looper wi…
Robert Altman’s adaptation of Michael Tolkin’s The Player—a novel that eviscerates ’80s Hollywood—begins with a lengthy…
Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film noir masterpiece In A Lonely Place barely reaches the one-minute mark before its protagonist,…
As is often the case with pop touchstones, the experience of watching Easy Rider from start to finish is very different…
Nowadays, anyone who can afford a smartphone carries a fairly decent video camera around with them 24/7, ready to shoot…
For all the romances the movies have given us, there are precious few that show two people gradually falling in love.…
Whit Stillman tends to be cagey about when his movies take place. His 1990 debut, Metropolitan, claims to be set “not…
A contract assignment, made to open the door for a remake of Creature From The Black Lagoon that sadly never came to…
Cinephiles frequently cite 1939 as Hollywood’s greatest year, rattling off an impressive list of widely beloved…
War And Peace comes up more than once during the four-hour sprawl of A Brighter Summer Day. One of the film’s…
Released a year before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, The Manchurian Candidate held the title of Hollywood’s most…
In the summer of 1958, a 30-year-old film critic and amateur filmmaker named Jacques Rivette started shooting a movie…
Who doesn’t love watching scantily clad women having their body parts sawed off? Lots of people, really: In its…
There’s no indication whatsoever of who the “I” might be in I Knew Her Well, Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 film about an…
Back in 1997, on the occasion of The Graduate‘s 30th anniversary, Roger Ebert wrote a revised review in which he…