Whenever Arthur Penn’s name is mentioned, most people probably think of Bonnie and Clyde. The Beatty-Dunaway biographical crime film perhaps remains the most critically acclaimed…
When Scorsese and De Niro finalized their eighth collaboration back in 1995, Casino was greeted with kind words from the critics, but also attacked for…
Indulging a creative and, to a degree, noble and socially responsible desire to shatter the nurtured illusion of violence in the westerns as idealized, innocent…
None of George Roy Hill’s numerous films made the deep impact his only collaboration with the American screenwriting legend William Goldman had back in 1969….
The Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed Miller’s Crossing can be easily studied in two distinct ways. Firstly, it’s one hell of a gangster thriller, enriched by…
Widely regarded as the first major film noir, considered by Roger Ebert as one of the greatest films ever made and winner of three Academy…
Howard Hawks made a number of westerns in his life, none of which had the intense impact on us the way Rio Bravo did. The…
In an attempt to somehow merge the genre of comedy with unmistakable elements of satire and to a degree even horror, Martin Scorsese took the…
As one of the first heist films that put the culprits in the center of the audience’s attention, John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle served as…
With Badlands, Terrence Malick made a directorial debut most filmmakers can only dream of. The road to such success, however, was paved with nothing but…