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April 22, 2009
The memoir of Nathan Leopold, one of the twentieth century's most notorious murderers.
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January 25, 2009
The only film ever made that could be said to have cost the United States government billions--in a missile defense system that only Hollywood could make work.
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January 23, 2009
If one Paramount exec had his way, Don Corleone would have been played by Danny Thomas. Fortunately, Francis Coppola had no interest in turning Mario Puzo's novel into Make Room For Goddaddy.
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January 23, 2009
Barbara Kopple spent thirteen months living and breathing the dust of a brutal coal strike. Out of it came this groundbreaking documentary.
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January 14, 2009
If you stay at the Overlook Hotel, best avoid Room 237.
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January 11, 2009
Jimmy Stewart suffers from high anxiety in what some consider to be Alfred Hitchcock's greatest film.
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January 10, 2009
Selecting Bergman's greatest masterpiece is like trying to pick the best pistachio nut in a bowl. Although this tale of a doctor looking back on his life is as good a choice as any.
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January 9, 2009
John Hinckley ignored Robert DeNiro and became obsessed with Jodie Foster, eventually attempting to kill President Reagan to impress her.
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January 9, 2009
Dustin Hoffman chooses Mrs. Robinson over plastics. Who wouldn't?
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January 9, 2009
Marcel Ophuls documents Vichy France's shameful collaboration with Nazi Germany.
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January 8, 2009
Robert DeNiro put on sixty pounds during the course of filming, probably by swallowing all that Hershey's syrup Martin Scorsese used for blood in the brutal black and white fight scenes.
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January 8, 2009
Of all the shiksa goddesses that Woody Allen created, none could top Annie Hall. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da..."
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January 7, 2009
James Dean makes his motion picture debut in this Elia Kazan movie film of John Steinbeck's novel set in rural California, just prior to America's involvement in World War I.
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January 5, 2009
While no flying nun, Salley Field is no less than heavenly as a wife and mother, organizing her fellow workers in a Southern textile factory.
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January 4, 2009
A brutal tale that, ironically, sent thousands of moviegoers on their way whistling a happy tune.
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January 3, 2009
Stanley Kubrick's exploration of nearly every popular sci-fi theme has since become firmly rooted in our cultural landscape
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January 3, 2009
Stanley Kubrick's chilling black comedy satirized fanatical cold war militarism.
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January 2, 2009
Six people sit down for dinner and never get around to actually eating.
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January 2, 2009
All it took were three mechanical sharks and a two-note tuba chorus. In the summer of 1975, the fish had the oceans to themselves.
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January 2, 2009
A film about juvenile delinquency left kids dancing in the aisles to devil's music--Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock"--and the rock 'n' roll generation was spawned.
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January 2, 2009
Ben Kingsley's channeled Mohandas Gandhi so deeply that it's difficult to view pictures of the sainted Indian leader without thinking it's the actor.
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January 2, 2009
Twenty-five years before Katy Perry, Jessica Lange kisses a girl and it feels good, even if it is Dustin Hoffman.
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January 1, 2009
A mental institution is the setting for Ken Kesey's 1962 parable about the power of the state.
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