Tunneling to Freedom
In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp
By David Lehman Thursday, June 6, 2024
Homage to the Uncanny
Dead of Night (1945), a masterpiece of horror
By David Lehman Thursday, February 29, 2024
How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?
A multiple-choice test for the maestro’s fans
By David Lehman Friday, January 19, 2024
“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 5, 2022
Hamlet vs. the Nazis
A look back at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 movie, To Be or Not To Be
By David Lehman Monday, January 4, 2021
Gangsters in Love
Revisiting Sergio Leone’s 1984 classic, Once Upon a Time in America
By David Lehman Saturday, October 17, 2020
Coward, Take My Coward’s Hand
Looking back at Mark Robson’s Home of the Brave
By David Lehman Thursday, August 13, 2020
An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast
Revisiting Carol Reed’s 1947 masterpiece Odd Man Out
By David Lehman Thursday, July 9, 2020
Strangers and Mirrors
Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
By David Lehman Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Great Movie Music
Fifteen examples that avoid the usual suspects
By David Lehman Tuesday, April 28, 2020
A Matter of Pride
The enduring legacy of Gentleman’s Agreement
By David Lehman Monday, February 10, 2020
