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Night of the Living Dead: Mere Anarchy Is Loosed
With the scrappiest of means, George A. Romero created not only a landmark of independent cinema but also an indelible portrait of America as hellscape.
Sullivan’s Travels: Self-Portrait in a Fun-House Mirror
Preston Sturges revealed a lot about himself and the movie business in this hilarious and socially committed comedy.
Masks and Faces
The disc of Faces that you now hold is the most beautiful copy possible of a film that was meant to look lousy. Digital technology painstakingly reproduces John Cassavetes’s lighting, which allowed his actors to move about freely, and so lent his a…
Seeing Clearly Through Tears: On the Smart Sentiment of Umberto D.
Umberto D. is perhaps the most astringent film ever made about a poor old man and his dog. Critics today tend to like the astringent parts: the long, deliberately undramatic sequences full of mundane activity (such as a housemaid’s morning routine)…
White: The Nonpolitical Reunifications of Karol Karol
“The day I can buy toilet paper in a Polish store, I’ll discuss politics,” Krzysztof Kieślowski told an interviewer in 1989, as he brushed aside a question. He was speaking at the Montreal Film Festival, where he was serving on the jury, a lit…
Homicide: What Are You, Then?
Words are the trained fleas in David Mamet’s sidewalk circus—dirty words, often bloodstained, usually swarming, that perform their acrobatic stunts for gawkers who will likely get their pockets picked. That’s the reputation, anyhow. More than t…
Hands over the City: Confidential Reports—The Investigative Thrillers of Francesco Rosi
Twenty-one years after Orson Welles sprang on the world a current-events picture called Citizen Kane—original title, American—a worthy successor burst forth in Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano. A real-life story of the recent murder of a Sicil
…Divorce Italian Style: The Facts (and Fancies) of Murder
Pietro Germi offers locomotive relief in this comedy about the horrors of inertia.