Category Archives: Coming Soon

Poorly received in its time in spite of earning directing plaudits for Billy Wilder at the Venice Film Festival, ACE IN THE HOLE [1951] remains an unsparing critique of American culture as embodied by Kirk Douglas‘s ambitious, unscrupulous reporter and … Continue reading →

Perry Henzell's masterpiece THE HARDER THEY COME begins as a curio from a country not known for cinema — Jamaica — soon becomes an irie artifact of its era, and then pulls it all together with a hat trick: a … Continue reading →

Werner Herzog does David Lynch. Or maybe Lynch does Herzog. Either way, they're in bed together for MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE, the other half of Herzog's crazy coin after the recent BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL … Continue reading →

George Cukor's 1938 rendition of HOLIDAY is both a delightful banter-filled screwball comedy that glows with affection for its collection of willing outsiders and a lovely romantic tribute to the importance of finding one's rightful place and purpose. The recurring … Continue reading →

That oft-cited equation for popular cinema’s essentials — sometimes attributed to Jean-Luc Godard, sometimes to D.W. Griffith — is the animating notion behind the latest found-footage essay from Austrian director Gustav Deutsch: “All you need to make a movie is … Continue reading →

BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE [Paul Mazursky/1969] trades its situational comedy on the touchy-feeliness of group therapy and the striving for openness and free love that came with the era. Although a bit of a time capsule now, … Continue reading →

The late Youssef Chahine gets a mini-retrospective this weekend, courtesy of the the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The master filmmaker's career spanned nearly six decades, earning him both acclaim and censure in his role as the cinematic voice for … Continue reading →

Watching Peter Bogdanovich's PAPER MOON [1973] again recently, after seeing it and loving it as a kid when it came out, was an interesting experience. I felt more acutely aware that I was watching a period piece that had itself … Continue reading →

Vincent Price was nothing if not a great sport. Although an actor of tremendous range and charisma, he never let ego keep him from campy projects that exploited his status as “horror guy,” from his back-stabbing grin and impiously velvet … Continue reading →

One of the highlights of the three-week festival of Elia Kazan movies playing the Film Forum October 9 through 29 is the controversial director's controversial 1956 white-trash comedy BABY DOLL. Condemned upon release by the Catholic League of Decency as … Continue reading →