The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, has a single, striking image: a couple embracing at a train station. It’s not the summation one would expect of a 194-minute film that spans half a decade, globe-trots through more than a dozen countries, and wrangles an ensemble Read More
The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, has a single, striking image: a couple embracing at a train station. It’s not the summation one would expect of a 194-minute film that spans half a decade, globe-trots through more than a dozen countries, and wrangles an ensemble Read More
For a certain generation, the films of John Hughes were a perfect pop-culture mirror of what it meant to be a teenager. Or at least they seemed like reflections. If your own high school wasn’t quite so easily divided into castes, if your town didn’t have a record store that stocked British imports, if your Read More
For a certain generation, the films of John Hughes were a perfect pop-culture mirror of what it meant to be a teenager. Or at least they seemed like reflections. If your own high school wasn’t quite so easily divided into castes, if your town didn’t have a record store that stocked British imports, if your Read More
In 1967, a Time magazine cover story trumpeted “The Shock of Freedom in Films,” praising Hollywood’s belated embrace of the French New Wave. The article mostly paid enormous respects to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, but passing mention was made of how Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, John Boorman’s Point Blank and Stanley Donen’s Two Read More
It’s been 20 years since David Addison and Maddie Hayes set up shop together at the Blue Moon Detective Agency, doubled the entendres, tripled the word-per-minute pace of television dialogue and instigated Wednesday-morning water-cooler-area gridlock. Moonlighting, the convention-flouting romantic detective comedy starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd, has never been heavily syndicated or on home Read More
