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Aug 20, 2019 — With The Hired Hand, Fonda created a classic of the new era ushered in by Easy Rider.
Jan 24, 2018 — One of the most memorable sequences in the silent classic People on Sunday explores the experience of being photographed and the tension between still and moving images.
Oct 22, 2013 — This delicately creepy Hollywood horror movie lives up to its reputation as a classic of the genre.
Oct 30, 2025 — Classics of the genre—including Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and David Cronenberg’s The Fly—explore the gory extremes of corporeal experience.
Apr 30, 2024 — John Carpenter is an award-winning writer, director, and composer. Born in Kentucky, he studied film at the University of Southern California before making Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13. An internationally renowned master of the horror genre, Carpenter spawned...
Mar 14, 2023 — A pivotal early film from legendary Hong Kong director John Woo, this martial-arts classic explores the heroic ethos of youxia, Chinese warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to fight for justice and fulfill their promises.
Aug 20, 2001 — Before Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson there was Carl Th. Dreyer. The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately understood yet took...
The actor, director, and writer shares his love for the physical comedy of Jackie Chan, praises the timeless beauty of The Red Shoes, and talks about discovering noir classics like The Big Heat and In a Lonely Place on the...
The Oscar-winning costume designer recalls a memorable screening of Down by Law in Rome and explains what makes the Italian classics Bicycle Thieves and The Leopard so revelatory.