Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie and Clyde
In the era of the antihero, few were more antiheroic than Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
All the President’s Men All the President’s Men
No one could put Richard Nixon back together again after Woodward and Bernstein got through with him.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Chinatown Chinatown
There's corruption in Los Angeles's water department and private detective Jake Gittes sticks his nose where he shouldn't-literally.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Persona Persona
A nurse and her suddenly mute patient in Bergman's hands becomes nothing less than a work of art.
Dec 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Jules and Jim Jules and Jim
Henri-Pierre Roche's novel about three friends during World War I was long out of print until François Truffaut turned it into a landmark of the French New Wave.
Dec 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Close Encounters of the Third Kind
In Spielberg's blockbuster aliens encounter human beings and, amazingly, aren't horrified at what they find.
Dec 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Psycho Psycho
Janet Leigh says she hasn't taken a shower since, but the notion of motherhood took a bath.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Reds Reds
Warren Beatty's epic about the life and death of American radical journalist John Reed.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy
Fred Neil's haunting song, "Everybody's Talkin'" sets the mood for this tragic buddy movie.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
MASH MASH
The movie may have been set in Korea, but Robert Altman clearly had Vietnam in mind when he made this satire of the American military.
Dec 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch