The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
This threadbare but well received vehicle has the boys (with Joe DeRita replacing Shemp, Joe Besser and Curly) going back in time to goof on Hercules, newly popularized by the onslaught of...
View ArticleThe Hill
Michael Peyser is a little cooler than we are to Sidney Lumet’s ultra-cinematic adaptation of Ray Rigby’s adaptation of his play set in a brutal British military prison in the Libyan desert. Sean...
View ArticleSeven Days In May
As Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas tighten the screws in a life and death face-off between a traitorous general and his whistle-blowing aide, John Frankenheimer keeps upping the ante in this...
View ArticleJules and Jim
Francois Truffaut’s poignant portrait of a twenty year menage a trois outraged US censors. The cineaste director’s self-described “perfect hymn to love, and perhaps even to life” made him an...
View ArticleChildren of Paradise
Positioned in this American trailer as the French answer to Gone With the Wind, Marcel Carne’s two-part,three hour meditation on the 19th century theater world (paradis is the name for the gallery, the...
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