Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On
Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish.
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Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish.
Ti West’s clever and original ‘X’ trilogy is elevated postmodern horror at its finest and its director’s best work to date.
The story of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster franchise, Mad Max.
Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art.
Alex Garland’s spectacular new film ‘Civil War’ is a warning of what can happen to democracies when civil society collapses.
After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered.
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.
John Landis’s 1978 comedy classic ‘Animal House’ is a time capsule from an era when humor and campus politics were very different.
A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels.
Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary.
A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper.
Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster.
An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’
The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II.
A look at the ten nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar.