Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
Director Michael Curtiz brings noir sensibility to the James Cain melodrama and directs Crawford to her only Academy Award in this superb Hollywood classic.
Wes Anderson’s tale of young love and teenage adventure is funny, playful, and full of nostalgic blasts and period trappings, but most of all it is loving.
Arnaud Desplechin’s mercurial, knotty and cinematically vibrant drama of family dysfunction stirred up over a Christmas gathering is a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality.
Lynch transformed the pilot of a TV show into a neo-noir with a weird, mystical logic that, in its unique Lynchian way, makes a twisted emotional sense.
John Hurt and Richard Burton star in Michael Radford’s impressive film adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian classic, which has the distinction of being made and released in 1984.
Daredevil stunts made this thrill comedy iconic but behind the astounding scenes of Lloyd scrambling up the side of a Los Angeleas skyscraper is a witty workplace comedy, circa 1920.
Angie Dickinson and Michael Caine star in the stylish, sexy thriller, De Palma’s reworking of Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ executed with cinematic brio and an erotic charge.
