The Blackboard Jungle The Blackboard Jungle
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.
Jan 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Gandhi Gandhi
Ben Kingsley's channeled Mohandas Gandhi so deeply that it's difficult to view pictures of the sainted Indian leader without thinking of the actor.
Jan 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Tootsie Tootsie
Twenty-five years before Katy Perry, Jessica Lange kisses a girl and it feels good, even if it is Dustin Hoffman.
Jan 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A mental institution is the setting for Ken Kesey's 1962 parable about the power of the state.
Jan 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg's imaginary childhood friend brought to life, voiced by an aging actress with a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit.
Dec 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Nashville Nashville
The quintessential Robert Altman film featured a cast of hundreds and about an equal number of subplots, but who's complaining?
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Dog Day Afternoon Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet finds the soul of New York City in a bank robbery that goes comically--and tragically--awry.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola fuses Conrad's Heart of Darkness with the Vietnam war in this sprawling, ambitious film.
Dec 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Network Network
Peter Finch asked all Americans to open their windows and shout, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore." Excuse us a second...
Dec 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Atlantic City Atlantic City
Aging numbers-man Burt Lancaster yearns for the day when even the Atlantic Ocean "was something."
Dec 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch