Brannigan
After he failed to secure the lead role in Dirty Harry (1971), John Wayne made McQ (1974) then he went on to do another cop picture, Brannigan (1975). Brannigan takes… Read more »
The Howling On 35mm
Joe Dante’s film The Howling (1981) remains one of the seminal horror films of the eighties whose critical reputation has only grown since its initial release. It’s the film that… Read more »
Wild Things
Filmmaker John McNaughton established himself with the highly influential film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986) which he co-wrote and directed. Over the course of his career McNaughton proved… Read more »
At Close Range
Although shot in Tennessee, At Close Range (1986) is a film that feels authentically Pennsylvanian. So many of the interior spaces look like the spaces that I grew up in…. Read more »
Antitrust
Imagine that your romantic partner is a criminal blackmailed into controlling you by a Steve Jobs-like computer genius trying to recruit you. Imagine that this so-called computer genius is a… Read more »
Executive Action
Eleven years after collaborating on the fantastic Western film Lonely Are The Brave (1962), director David Miller and writer Dalton Trumbo made Executive Action (1973). As the Watergate scandal and… Read more »
Working Girl
Happy Labor Day! Mike Nichols’ romantic comedy Working Girl (1988) re-imagines the Preston Sturges comedies of the forties for the late eighties; trading in Depression era fantasies of the American… Read more »
Blue Steel
Kathryn Bigelow introduces her lead character, Officer Meg Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis), in the pre-credit sequence of Blue Steel (1990). In this sequence Officer Turner is reprimanded for not being… Read more »
Olivia
After completing a pair of films with Andy Warhol, Ulli Lommel embarked on his most prolific and popular phase of his career as a director. This period of Lommel’s career… Read more »
Saint Jack
Saint Jack (1979) is the first of two films that director Peter Bogdanovich made with actor Ben Gazzara. And like their second collaboration, They All Laughed (1981), Saint Jack has… Read more »
