So much more than a heist film, the true story of 'Sonny' Wojtowicz trying to rob a bank captures the spirit of the age, and is pioneering in its foregrounding of gay and trans characters.
A puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the Pagan locals claim never existed. Directed by the late Robin Hardy, whose son, the film director Justin Hardy, will be introducing the movie and answering questions.
The ultimate answer to the question 'Are sequels ever as good as the originals?' The studio asked for more Godfather. Coppola gave them a saga in miniature, and a Great American Tragedy writ large in blood and tears.
A psychological thriller? A horror film? A deconstruction of the British abroad? For me , it's the most imaginative depiction of coming to terms with a child's death ever committed to film.
The original summer blockbuster is also a masterclass in building suspense by teasing the audience with what you don't show them. It changed the landscape of movie-making and made a generation of Americans afraid to go in the sea.
For just a moment, let's leave behind the toxic Woody Allen of 2023, and go back in time to 1977 — when 'Annie Hall' upended notions of the romantic comedy with its mix of direct address to the camera, lobster-cooking, and existential malaise.
Bob Fosse's reinvention of the movie musical. The Kit Kat Club acts as a kind of Greek Chorus for Germany's descent into Nazism, while outside in the real world hedonism gradually gives way to fascism.
Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece is many things at once: a pinpoint-precise character study, a devastating portrait of loneliness, a subtle commentary on the psychological fallout of the Vietnam War, a blood-spraying grindhouse movie, and a wacky office comedy.
Look past the oft-praised (and still outstanding) exploration of the dark side of the American dream, and you’ll discover a spectacularly entertaining, morally serious, tragic family crime drama that’s also one of the most chilling coming-of-age sagas ever made.
