Talking Pictures
“Mr. Lucky” Didn’t Know Who He Was
How Cary Grant’s magical film career paralleled a lifelong identity crisis
by David Lehman | Thursday, September 28, 2023
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