In his 1908 novel A Room with a View, British novelist E.M. Forster probes the conflict between middle-class manners and sensual passion; his alliances lay…
Jaws: the New Hollywood movie that began to end them all by creating summer blockbusters, the origin point for practically every bad urban legend about…
It’s hardly surprising when a filmmaker rejects labels placed upon them by others. To put years of diligent, thoughtful work into a personal project and…
The first entry of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy and one of the last titles he made in the 1970s, the decade he’d defined with…
Thanks in part to a shimmering new 4K restoration, Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s Speed Racer is enjoying a newfound moment in the spotlight. Originally released…
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord…
Successful parody requires affection. The reason why something like Young Frankenstein works – and—why anything directed by anyone named Friedberg and/or Seltzer categorically does not…
From above and behind, we watch a man running through a wintry Central Park, his dark clothing marking him as a silhouette against the snow-frosted…
With most established classics of cinema, it only takes a little work to extrapolate what each sequence is meant to convey to the viewer, but…
“Cura animarum is a historical Latin term originating from ecclesiastical law, which translates to ‘the care of souls’ or ‘the cure of souls.’ It refers…
Jim Jarmusch’s characters tend to not be long for their worlds. William Blake, Johnny Depp’s meek and self-effacing protagonist of Dead Man, loses out on…
Richard Fleischer’s 1952 thriller The Narrow Margin is a tough, taut little gem, a masterclass in narrative economy and tight, claustrophobic mise-en-scène. Clocking in at barely…
One day there will be a knock on the door and it’ll be me. …
Luis Buñuel didn’t think much of the Joseph Kessel novel that was the source material for his 1967 adaptation of Belle de Jour and mostly…
As the economic and political importance of Hong Kong expanded exponentially in the second half of the 20th century, so did the reach of its…
“Look out Mama, there’s a white boat coming up the river!” — Neil Young, “Powderfinger” It’s the sound of waves parting, or maybe…
There’s little to say about Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows that hasn’t already been said. Like any great film, it’s animated by an internal…
In the darkness of your room Your mother calls you by your true name You remember the faces the places the names You know it’s…
The world of Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives is shown to have disappeared into the amber hues of the past right from the start,…
Myrtle Gordon, the actress played with dazed, turbulent ferocity by Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night, struggles to articulate her problem with…
“If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.” — Job 14:14…