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Noir, now more than ever
Noir: when they first started making them, they didn’t even have a name for them.
Born from a literary movement popularized by Dashiell Hammett, James...
Home viewing: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3
In 1990, Martin Scorsese brought together a band of cinema enthusiasts to protect motion picture history by creating The Film Foundation (TFF) — a...
Three colors, three ideas, three masterpieces
The colors belong to the French flag, the corresponding ideas to the Republic: blue, white and red — liberty, equality and fraternity. For France,...
‘Fish Tank’ deserves awards its winning
Mia is a girl on her way to a serious date with trouble...
8-bit-o’-honey
For a generation weaned on more Mario than Mother Goose, Wreck-It Ralph has been a long time coming. An 8-bit fairy tale with a burly bruiser in the role of the misunderstood princess, it skews a tad more prepubescent than Pixar but shares similar DNA. Writers ...
Too cool to be forgotten
When Girlfriends opened in New York City on Aug. 11, 1978, a newspaper strike kept the movie’s release from a public announcement. So, director...
Taking a scenic sociopath
Oftentimes, films determined to be quirky and fun actually come off as little more than overconfident jackassery, a condition now known as Baby Driver-itis....
Everyone is awful
Warning to newly engaged couples: Do not see Gone Girl, a movie that makes marriage look like The Hunger Games with slightly more alleged sodomy. Writer Gillian Flynn, adapting her own novel, filters her twisty-turny whodunit (if there even is an “it” to be “whodun...
On her own terms
Amy Schumer tries everything. Especially when it comes to shooting a one-night stand for her movie...
