Dear Readers,
With their Palme d’Or-winning film, the Coen brothers declare, “Look upon me! I’ll show you the life of the mind!”
David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. defies all waking, verbalized logic. Its audience must commit themselves to being dream detectives, a cinematic métier in which we are required to decipher cryptic d...
There’s no denying the iconic status of George Lucas’ space opera.
The French thriller that Hitchcock wished he had made.
How fitting that David Fincher’s best film is about obsession
In Jules Dassin’s essential film noir, Richard Widmark plays a hustler whose time has run out.
Kurt Russell plays an iconic, cynical antihero in John Carpenter’s cult actioner.
Carol Reed’s fatalistic thriller starring James Mason asks us to examine our apathy toward others.
Audiences in the 1940s found Preston Sturges’ macabre comedy in poor taste; today, it’s a different story.
