In the 1918 photo below, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks draw tens of thousands to Wall Street and the…
History of Cinema
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Stylish, compelling, and hugely entertaining, Fernando Meirelles’ City of God (Cidade de Deus) also has a serious…
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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway returned. They opened the envelope. They read the winner. All…
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Roman Polanski’s movie Chinatown is a gripping thriller with a truly nasty sting in its tail. Jack…
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Bonnie and Clyde marked the arrival of a new generation of American directors whose freer style…
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There isn’t much kindness on display in A Streetcar Named Desire, which tells the story of…
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From A Star Is Born in 1937 to The Artist in 2011, the movie industry has exhibited a narcissistic…
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The title of Nicholas Ray’s iconic teen movie is misleading, because the movie’s central character…
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I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life,” says Charles Foster Kane, the…
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Made at the height of World War II, Casablanca is a romance set in neutral Morocco, just…