Flying Leathernecks

Sep 16, 2019 — In a dark moment, Laurence Olivier often reached for a laugh. His lofty, somewhat burdensome reputation as his century’s greatest dramatic actor belies the mercurial essence of his craft, which was to seize upon the humanity in each of his...

Aug 14, 2019 — There is a scene in Henry King’s State Fair (1933) that ranks among the most poetic moments in all of 1930s American cinema. There is not much to it, just a family driving through the dusk in their rattling pickup...

Jul 31, 2019 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!

Jul 30, 2019 — The New York Film Festival has landed the world premiere of The Irishman—and Scorsese is already at work on his next feature.

Jul 23, 2019 — He even walks in stereo. So proclaims a kid on a stoop toward the beginning of Do the Right Thing; he’s stunned by the sun but also by the sight and sound of Radio Raheem. Raheem is silent but so...

Jul 8, 2019 — With his incomparable adaptation of War and Peace, filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk sought to surpass King Vidor’s 1956 big-budget Hollywood spin on Leo Tolstoy’s novel in dramatic heft and dazzling spectacle, a task in which he certainly succeeded. Over the course...

Jun 28, 2019 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!

Jun 10, 2019 — The new issue focuses on the impact of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, women’s film criticism, and Hollywood’s international productions.

May 20, 2019 — Triple crosses follow double crosses in this slick crime thriller.

May 14, 2019 — The seventy-second edition will present new work by some of the world’s most renowned filmmakers.