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Jul 2, 2024 Self-destruction is not only an aesthetic but its own subject matter in Sam Peckinpah’s deeply elegiac western, a towering masterpiece that examines American power and greed.

Billy Liar

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Jul 9, 2001 John Schlesinger’s beloved dramedy subverts the conventions of British kitchen-sink realism.

Jun 18, 2025 Throughout a small but indelible body of work that includes the 1984 neorealist masterpiece Bless Their Little Hearts, the veteran filmmaker has explored how everyday life is lived within structures of power.

Mar 6, 2019 Performances As Howard Hawks was preparing to make His Girl Friday, his 1940 version of the classic Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, he was determined not to repeat what he felt had been a problem with his earlier comedy Bringing Up...

Feb 21, 2014 Did You See This?• Billy Crystal remembers Sid Caesar. • Paolo Sorrentino talks Oscars and more. • Behind the scenes with Stanley Kubrick • Revisiting High and Low • A Tarkovsky poem • Jim Jarmusch vamps • Refurbished Umbrellas •...

The performer and author sings (literally) the praises of the Tootsie score, talks about Barbra Streisand as a “North Star for anyone unconventional trying to make it in show business,” and shares the moving experience of watching My Beautiful Laundrette...

The actor talks about My Darling Clementine and his newfound love of westerns, praises the timeless exploration of morality in 12 Angry Men, and looks back on auditioning for No Country for Old Men.

May 1, 2019 The acclaimed out-rock trio Beak> was formed in January 2009 by Bristol musicians Billy Fuller (Robert Plant, Fuzz Against Junk), Matt Williams, and Geoff Barrow (Portishead). The band has very strict guidelines governing their work: the music is recorded live...

Sep 30, 2014 Singer-songwriter and occasional film actor Will Oldham has released eighteen albums, appeared in such films as Matewan (1987), Junebug (2005), Old Joy (2006), and Wendy and Lucy (2008), and teamed with David Byrne to compose the score for This Must...

Nov 20, 2008 Recipient of a special New York Film Critics Circle award for visionary programming, Bruce Goldstein is the Repertory Program Director of New York’s Film Forum, for which he has created more than 350 film festivals and spearheaded the rereleases of...

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