Wild in the Streets
Shelley Winters struggles to close the generation gap.
Shocking Blocking
Field notes on the movement and positioning of actors in movies.
The Guv’nor
His commitment to peripatetic idling never wavers.
The Asphalt Jungle
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.
Gone With the Wind
Bodies will be stacked together on battlefields like so much cordwood.
Beach Party
The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Pure Hitchcock: tragic and comic at precisely the same instant.
Les Valseuses
Half-wild denizens of “la zone” on the outskirts of a large town.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Blade Runner
Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.
Apocalypse Now
In the existential jungle, empathy makes a man fitter for survival. But at what price?
The Fifth Element
Leeloo's strength is also her weakness.
The Bad News Bears
In life, as in baseball, things can always get better. Or worse.
Raising Arizona
A blank affect can be a canny psychic-survival stratagem.
Young and Innocent
It’s not about right vs. wrong, it’s about wit vs. shit.