Westerns often take well-known episodes of American history and build them up into iconographic films, but few are more tightly rooted in history and the experience of the West than Howard Hawks’...

The truth lies between lines of testimony in Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa’s philosophical tale whose enduring influence can be measured by the spread of Japanese cinema across the globe and its impa...

On the surface, The Thin Man is about retired detective Nick Charles, played by the debonair William Powell, who investigates a missing person’s case and, in due course, solves a twisting, almost inco...

Gal Dove’s Spanish hacienda is a place of leisure. He sunbathes poolside like a lizard roasting on a desert rock, his skin achingly tan and leathered, his movements plodding. The heat burns so good. “...

Before even the first shots of principal photography, production on “The Old Mill” has stopped. Another of leading man Bob Barrenger’s incidents with an underage girl has forced the production to pack...

A cybernetic organism, or cyborg as they are more commonly known, is a fusion of living tissue and machine. The cyborg’s construction represents a synthesis of reality and fiction, the real and the im...

Just as the newspapermen in Citizen Kane set out in vain to find “an angle” on which they can evaluate the subject of Charles Foster Kane’s death, approaching Orson Welles’ motion picture today might ...

Martin Scorsese’s After Hours exists in a fever dream, where strange people behave in even stranger ways, and an obsessive rationale inhabits every detail. To watch the comedy is to willingly submit y...

Director Nicholas Ray captured the feelings of an entire generation of teenagers in Rebel Without a Cause, a picture that ushered in a movement of teen films and, following the phenomenon of its relea...