Talking Pictures
Brilliant Carnage
Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet
by David Lehman | Thursday, February 23, 2023
What Hath Gable Got?
“Rhett Butler” romances Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s comic masterpiece It Happened One Night
by David Lehman | Monday, November 28, 2022
The Allure of the Enigmatic
“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up
by David Lehman | Thursday, August 25, 2022
The Plot to Kill de Gaulle
Fred Zinnemann’s “clock management” in The Day of the Jackal
by David Lehman | Saturday, March 05, 2022
The Prophecy of an Assassination
John Frankenheimer’s prescient 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate
by David Lehman | Saturday, January 22, 2022
Christmas Movies Beyond the Expected
Six films to shake up your holiday viewing
by David Lehman | Saturday, December 18, 2021
The Highest Achievement of American Film Noir
Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson at their best in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity
by David Lehman | Saturday, November 06, 2021
To Dance an Exclamation Point
The case for An American in Paris as Gene Kelly’s best
by David Lehman | Saturday, September 25, 2021
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