Remembering the endlessly quotable film that started it all; perhaps never cool, but at least it sincerely tried.
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Tobey Maguire portrays a thunderstruck Peter Parker Spider-Man 2; he staggers through the film perpetually on the…
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When conceiving of The Filmstruck Cram, a priority was certainly to highlight the site’s role in making…
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Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg is exactly the style of film I wouldn’t reach for if not for…
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In a coincidence that highlights the vitality of a service like Filmstruck, a print of Akira Kurosawa’s…
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Many years before the Coen Brother’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, before No Country for Old Men, Fargo,…
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Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter was a critical bomb that alienated audiences when it was…
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Dial M for Murder, which Alfred Hitchcock adapted with precision from a hit play by writer Frederick…
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Unlike other films from The Filmstruck Cram series, such as Shogun Assassin or The Long Good Friday,…
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The Candidate is both prescient in its portrayal of campaign politics and entirely quaint in its level…
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Despite it’s well-deserved standing as one of the all-time great British films, The Long Good Friday isn’t…
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Luis Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert is the kind “comedy” which provokes more introspection than laughter. It’s…
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“When cut across the neck, a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say. I’d always…
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1967’s Branded to Kill can be maddening. The film’s renegade director, Seijun Suzuki — who was fired by…
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‘Chungking Express’ deserves to be cherished — yet by the film’s own logic, it seems just as likely to disappear while no one is looking.
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There are certain elements of Dracula, or as it was titled in America, Horror of Dracula, which…
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Back in June of 2017, Ciara Wardlow over at Film School Rejects made a grim assessment of…
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NYFF: Portraits of Rejection in ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and ‘American Dharma’
It’s too inexact (and politically fraught) to compare Jake Hannaford, the unraveling fictional director at the center…
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NYAFF 2018: Sweetness Can’t Solve the Problem of Middle-Age in ‘Men on the Dragon’
The ostensible premise of Sunny Chan’s Men on the Dragon, the centerpiece film at the 2018 New…
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Ogami, one half of the odd-couple detective pairing in The Blood of Wolves, is a familiar figure.…
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