Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

I Confess is generally recognized as lesser Hitchcock, even though it has a powerhouse cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, and Karl Mald...

Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes From a Marriage It's said that when the six-episode miniseries aired on Swedish televisio...

For a forthcoming review, I recently read the third volume of Simon Callow's projected four-volume biography of Orson Welles , in wh...

Amid the nearly universal acclaim for Schindler's List , two major criticisms are often heard. One is that Spielberg tends toward the ...

François Leterrier in A Man Escaped   Fontaine : François Leterrier François Jost : Charles LeClainche Orsini : Jacques Ertaud Blanch...

Although Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964) is by far the more celebrated film, I think as satire  The Manchurian Candidate is...

Back in the day we would discuss for hours the significance of Thomas (David Hemmings) fetching an invisible tennis ball after having phot...

Raising Arizona was the Coen brothers' second movie, and they never made another quite as broadly comic as this one. Even The Big Leb...

TCM this month has been running a series of movies condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, with commentary by Sister Rose Pacatte. Si...

Is there anything scarier than Robert De Niro's smile? It's what makes his bad guys, like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (Martin Sc...