MovingPictureHistoryBlog

You've probably never seen another movie quite like The Kid Stays in the Picture , but, trust me, novelty value isn't the only thi...

For past two decades or so, it has been a favorite sport of good, bad and indifferent filmmakers to define that precise moment in 20th-c...

Most audiences were puzzled and disappointed by Vertigo when it first appeared in 1958. Ticketbuyers of the time likely wanted a rollerc...

If you accept the conventional wisdom regarding the late Stanley Kubrick, your worst suspicions will be confirmed by his crowning achieveme...

A textbook example of a hand-tooled star vehicle that forever labels the star in its driver’s seat, Smokey and the Bandit also is notewort...

Much has been made of the fresh ideas, revolutionary approaches and film-school-grad fervor – in short, the youth – of filmmakers at the v...

Film rarely gets more noir than Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour , a wide-awake nightmare of unforgiving fate and dead-end fatalism that may be t...