British war cinema is preoccupied, it seems, with stiff-upper-lipped defeat—from innumerable plucky POW features to the sinking of Noel Coward’s destroyer from In Which We…
Two years after Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves became only the second Western ever to win the Best Picture Academy Award, the first being Cimarron…
Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning was labeled by Roger Ebert as the best American film of 1988. Bear in mind, this was the year the likes…
Between the huge successes of two Godfather movies, Francis Ford Coppola had the time to make, according to his own admission, his most personal film…
One of the first things that come to mind when The French Connection is discussed is the famous car chase scene, the breathtaking endeavor of…
The year 1974 was a rather big for then 48-year-old Mel Brooks. Seven years after his brilliant filmmaking debut with The Producers, Brooks made Blazing Saddles,…
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…