John Ford directs John Wayne and Robert Montgomery in this somber classic about the devastating early Pacific campaign after the declaration of war in 1941, a drama about the losses before the victories.
The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.
George Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.
William Wellman directs this snappy pre-code drama set in a sleazy backwater where the dregs of civilization hide out and the local law is even more corrupt than the crooks.
This superb adaptation of Ken Kesey’s counterculture novel won five Oscars, including best picture, director Milos Forman, actor Jack Nicholson, and actress Louise Fletcher.
This offbeat drama about an eccentric sentenced to a chain gang in a sweltering Southern prison may not be the greatest prison film ever made, but it surely must be the coolest.
