May 1, 2023
Contemporary critics may have all but ignored what was going on between Hitchcock’s Leopold and Loeb–like killers in favor of fixating on its form—a movie told in real time through extended shots and invisible cuts—modern audiences can revel in the simmering erotic tension between Granger and Dall.
Dietrich’s nightclub entrance in Morocco as sultry performer Amy Jolly doubled as Dietrich’s indelible entrance into Hollywood.
Apr 21, 2023
Kasdan’s reimagining of Double Indemnity is the stickiest, sweatiest, and sexiest neo-noir ever made
Romantic, funny, and occasionally shocking, it is as honest, fresh, and funny today as it was 40 years ago.
Serving up one delirious delight after another, Tim Burton’s film took everyone by pleasant surprise when it became a sleeper smash in summer ’85.
Visually extravagant yet written with a sharp eye for small details, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the rare blockbuster that’s also a quirky, personal, movie-mad homage.
Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, screens 6/23, 6/25 & 7/1.
The Harry Belafonte–produced, Arthur Baker–scored Beat Street made a bigger impact globally than Breakin’ and has aged much better as both a Black-led musical and an invaluable document of early ’80s hip-hop culture in New York.
Powered by Oscar-winning special effects, a catchy pop song by Huey Lewis & the News, and a mind-bending riff on the Oedipal complex, this Reagan-era blockbuster has stood the test of time.
John Travolta gives one of his strongest performances as a movie sound man in Brian De Palma’s masterful and ambitious variation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up.
Among the most charming and vividly realized animated features of Disney’s post–Golden Age, this hit adaptation of a series of books by Margery Sharp follows the adventures of the Rescue Aid Society, a group of mice helping international victims in peril.
With its unforgettable, symphonic shocks (including one of the most lauded decapitations in film history), this is deliriously demonic entertainment, featuring a terrifying, Oscar-winning score by Jerry Goldsmith
