Uncle Charlie has come home, much to the delight of Charlotte, otherwise known as Young Charlie, nicknamed after her uncle. She idolizes him and expects his presence will break up the monotonous routi...

To set the stage, in the last months of 1941, the world’s political climate was unfathomably grim. Hitler’s forces invaded Moscow in October of that year, and the battle continued until the following ...

In memory of David Lynch (1946-2025).

A sprawling period piece of immaculate design and elusive temper, Barry Lyndon might contain the narrative elements and setting of a grand historical drama or epic romance, but Stanley Kubrick’s film ...

Having journeyed on foot across the Sinai Desert, T.E. Lawrence, played by the indomitable Peter O’Toole, arrives with his sole remaining servant boy at the sanctuary of the Suez Canal. Across the wat...

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death opens by touring the vast emptiness that surrounds our little planet. Constellations twinkle and massive formations of burning gasses...

On a Parisian thoroughfare called the Boulevard du Crime, an ongoing jubilee of sideshow performers, vendors, jugglers, strong men, prostitutes, dancers, and pickpockets fills the street. In one exhib...

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is a singular achievement in cinematic suspense. Through its almost elemental construction, the picture is ideal blockbuster filmmaking. Spielberg mainlines directly into our m...

Arthur Hamilton has everything he’s been told he should want. A successful gray flannel suit banker, he owns a nice house in Scarsdale, a comfortable New York suburb. His loving wife has given him a n...