We tend to overrate the value of winning an Academy Award. The more optimistic among Hollywood’s denizens believe it will confer upon their film a kind of immortality, but how many people today have seen John Ford’sHow Green Was My Valley, whichbeatCitizen Kanefor Best Picture in 1941, ...
Starring original Obi-Wan Kenobi himself, Sir Alec Guinness, this inimitable epic by filmmaker David Lean has the dubious honor of being the film he made before Lawrence of Arabia, but that doesn’t stop The Bridge on the River Kwai from continuing its influence on things as wide ranging as...
If you're looking for a way to honor fallen servicemen and women, then watching some Memorial Day movies is the way to go. Here are all the best American war dramas to stream.
Arguably the greatest of all Japanese filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963), worked again and again with the same actors and the same co-writer, used the same style (low angles, straight-ahead, back-and-forth shots during conversations, very little moving camera), and even the same text-ov...