You paint? I walk! Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in a same-director (Leo McCarey), same-story remake of 1939's Love Affair. (Not to be confused with the Warren Beatty/Glenn Gordon Caron 1994 remake, also named Love Affair.) Ranked #5 on the American Film Institute's list of Most Romantic Movies. Wouldn't …
Intelligent (and passionate) B-movie about a San Francisco career gal who gives it all up to marry an L.A. cop, and then redirects her ambitions onto her hubby's career: Little Lady Macbeth. The script by Jo Eisinger is propelled by feminist concerns, but without any stultifying dogma or fawning wish-fulfillment. …
The modesty of means and of goals is much overcome by the passionateness of creative effort in this B-grade British horror film. The story pits an arrogant diabolist named Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) against a pooh-poohing American rationalist (Dana Andrews), who has a stiff drink in hand at every convenience. The …
Stanley Donen musical, his first away from MGM, to do with a bookworm turned into a fashion model by an Avedon-esque photographer. Bright, colorful, visually inventive confection soured a bit (but increased in interest at the same time) by complacent Philistine notions about such suspicious characters as beatniks, French intellectuals, …
On a boating outing with his son, an unlucky Joe Blow is exposed to a radioactive fog and begins a slow, irreversible journey to the infinitesimal. He first experiences some masculine chagrin over his suddenly baggy clothing, later becomes a pint-sized pet or adopted child to his dismayed and no …
Along with Loving You, King Creole, and Wild in the Country, this is one of the serious early Elvis pictures about the flowering of an artistic talent. In spite of that, it is good for a few laughs. Elvis is required to be an obnoxious, ungrateful, surly, swell-headed son of …
Robert Bresson's spiritualistic prison-escape movie is based on the actual experience of a French Resistance fighter captured by the Nazis, and is shot in the actual setting. You do not get to see much of this place, however, in Bresson's bowed-headed camerawork. What you see best is the hero's hands …
Fellini's tearjerker vehicle for his actress wife, Giulietta Masina, as an indomitable Roman streetwalker, a chipper chippy, a Chaplin-esque "tramp," a lonelyheart adventuress, roaming the darkness in hopeful search of True Love, and remaining miraculously impervious to the incessant cruelties, casual and calculated, in her line of work. Sweet Charity …
Stanley Kubrick's anti-war drama starring Kirk Douglas and written by Jim Thompson.
Often considered to be the quintessential Bergman film particularly by the parodists. Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with black-cloaked Death in eerie Medieval countryside overrun by plague and symbols.
Kurosawa's harsh, strenuous, intensely physical rendition of a Shakespeare classic. The tragedy of Macbeth is located amidst cats-and-dogs forest rainfall, impenetrable fog banks, and wind storms sweeping across dusty hills; and it is given an unforgettable, hair-raising finale in which Toshiro Mifune's carefully padded body absorbs a hailstorm of arrows …
This occupies the transitional spot in the Apu trilogy, and is the least interesting of the three on its own account. But in the geographical and cultural shift from unchanging rural India to the teeming city of Benares, Satyajit Ray still demonstrates a fine, exact, unjudgmental feeling for the physical …