Yeah right!” On the level of form, this interlude has a practical effect: it injects levity into an otherwise intense ...

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What passes for plot gradually gets even more minimal when the driver’s horse first refuses to pull the wagon, then refuses to eat. Eventually father and daughter also become immobilized, confirming ...

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1. Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray, 1954 2. Mouchette Robert Bresson, 1967 3. Laura Otto Preminger, 1944 4. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick, 1975 5. Muriel Alain ...

Streaming Pick Larry Clark's photographs and films dwell on the twilight of adolescence and the dawning of adulthood, often featuring violent collisions between seductive, impersonal cultural forces ...

First glimpsed pitching a Midwestern drive-in owner on a multi-mixer (arguing that his demand for shakes would be higher if he could supply more), Kroc (Michael Keaton) drives cross-country to San ...

James L. Brooks’s characters have exciting careers. In How Do You Know (2010), Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson play an Olympic softball player and a star pitcher for the Washington Nationals; in ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s new film, The Secret Agent, is the story of a man targeted by the forces of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. But it’s also a series of vivid, suggestive, sometimes ...

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1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 19742. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 19703. Faces John Cassavetes, 19684. Eyes Without a Face ...

(Warner Archive, $18.95) As John Ford said to a teenage Spielberg: “Where’s the horizon?” In Philip Kaufman’s 1974 film it rises almost to the top of the frame, an unforgiving expanse governed by ...