May 25, 2009 — Reported from the set of Eddie Coyle by New Journalism trailblazer Grover Lewis, this article is a profile of Robert Mitchum that features extensive, idiosyncratic monologues by Mitchum himself.

Apr 29, 2015 — Peter Yates's crime drama is a haunting, singular experience, brutal and minutely observed, with a remarkably authentic sense of place.

Jun 19, 2009 — Just this week a man, armed with a handgun, attempted to rob what is almost certainly (based on local accounts and a little detective work on our part) the very same Dedham, Massachusetts, bank that was the setting of the...

Mar 27, 2012 — One Scene Along with Who’ll Stop the Rain and Charley Varrick, I first saw The Friends of Eddie Coyle on late-night TV when I was ten or eleven. It would be another twenty-five years before I got ahold of the...

Apr 26, 2015 — Those are our three reasons. What are yours?

May 25, 2016 — Repertory PicksFor the past month, Minneapolis’s Trylon microcinema has devoted its screen to the films of Robert Mitchum—nine of them in total. This weekend marks the finale in the series, Robert Mitchum: Cheap, Flash, and Brilliant, and the theater is...

The actor and director talks about the making of some of his favorite films, including Shampoo and The Awful Truth; praises the precision of No Country for Old Men; and shares how The Friends of Eddie Coyle has inspired his...

Jan 15, 2017 — To make the performance of a tedious, exacting, time-consuming task riveting to watch, it is only necessary for the activity to be illegal.

Oct 27, 2021 — Channel Calendars Celebrate Noirvember on the Criterion Channel with a tribute to the cool-as-ice Robert Mitchum, whose nonchalance and quiet menace made him a defining presence in American cinema’s underworld. Or enjoy the sophisticated, pitch-dark pulp classics in our Fox...

Mar 25, 2025 — The Cinémathèque presents six shady tales from the 1970s.