Talking Pictures

How Cary Grant’s magical film career paralleled a lifelong identity crisis

Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet

“Rhett Butler” romances Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s comic masterpiece It Happened One Night

“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up

How many do you know by heart?

Cinema’s most seductive prop

Fred Zinnemann’s “clock management” in The Day of the Jackal

John Frankenheimer’s prescient 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate

Six films to shake up your holiday viewing

Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson at their best in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity