Tunneling to Freedom
In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp
Homage to the Uncanny
Dead of Night (1945), a masterpiece of horror
How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?
A multiple-choice test for the maestro’s fans
“Mr. Lucky” Didn’t Know Who He Was
How Cary Grant’s magical film career paralleled a lifelong identity crisis
Brilliant Carnage
Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet
What Hath Gable Got?
“Rhett Butler” romances Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s comic masterpiece It Happened One Night
The Allure of the Enigmatic
“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up
Famous Last Lines
How many do you know by heart?
The Last Cigarette
Cinema’s most seductive prop
The Plot to Kill de Gaulle
Fred Zinnemann’s “clock management” in The Day of the Jackal
