Altman at the Other End of the Seventies ✦
Altman helped redefine American films in the first half of the 1970s. The second half was another story.
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Open Question: What actor has most successfully reinvented themself? ✦
Sometimes actors variations on the same persona year after year. Others change lanes.
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#67 (tie): ‘The Red Shoes’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Technicolor passions flare up on and off the ballet stage in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's signature achievement.
In Review: 'Juror #2,' 'Here'
Clint Eastwood continues (and maybe concludes) a late-career streak of compelling films with a courtroom drama while Robert Zemeckis travels the years without moving the camera.
It’s October So I Watched a Horror Movie I’d Never Seen Before: ‘Goodnight Mommy’
One sort of horror gives way to another in this claustrophobic family story from Austria.
Open Question: What fictional supporting character could support their own movie? ✦
Sony's attempts to turn Spider-Man's supporting cast into anchors for their own movies has been largely lousy. But maybe the idea could work elsewhere?
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