The Birds' 50 Years of Influencing Filmmakers
Alfred Hitchcock's creepy classic has inspired five decades' worth of scary-movie auteurs with its technical mastery, its unexpected drama, and its terrific subtlety.
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Alfred Hitchcock's creepy classic has inspired five decades' worth of scary-movie auteurs with its technical mastery, its unexpected drama, and its terrific subtlety.
Derek Cianfrance's latest working-class tale showcases why he's the best autobiographical filmmaker working today: His confessions don't alienate his audience.
The new documentary Room 237 spotlights some strange fan theories about The Shining—but are they stranger than any given "eureka" theory about a film's meaning?
Authors are notorious for hating the movie adaptations of their work, but Philip K. Dick, Dennis Lehane, Anne Rice and others found themselves pleasantly surprised.
Colonel Blimp—newly re-released by the Criterion Collection—packs emotional depth and a touch of magic as it tells the story of two men's true friendship in wartime.
According to these filmmakers and stars, doing the deed in front of a camera requires communication, bravery, a sense of humor, and some serious endurance.
What if Tina Fey & co. had focused on how stuffy colleges are chasing after free spirits these days, instead of on an undercooked plotline about motherly guilt?
Kubrick wanted to tell the tale of Dietrich Schulz-Koehn, a swing-loving Luftwaffe officer who wrote about the music scenes in Nazi-occupied cities using the pen name "Dr. Jazz."
Morgan Freeman, Gerard Butler, and Aaron Eckhart's new movie imagines North Korea attacking the White House—and exploits every stereotype about the American id.
Why can't Tina Fey extend her domination of the small screen to the big one?
Lynne Ramsay, who walked out on 'Jane Got a Gun' without explanation this week, isn't the first acclaimed filmmaker to suddenly quit a project.
Money has always shaped filmmaking, and the yuan's new allure will make for a more-diverse movie industry and less simplistic portrayals of Asian characters onscreen.
For starters, it's hard to find dresses that can hide doves well.
Park Chan-wook's first movie in English may be more conventional than his earlier films, but it's still a sleek, nasty thriller.
Todd Robbins has devoted his life to mastering what's quickly becoming a lost art: live sideshow performance.
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Why has it been so difficult to successfully revisit the Emerald City?
A decade and a half after its initial release, the Coen brothers' comedy is less cult classic than actual cult.
These documentaries look to incite action with more than their stories.
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
