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
William Holden, Model Prisoner
How the actor defined the ideal, postwar man
By David Lehman Tuesday, January 14, 2020
