High Corman: pell-mell, hep, bizarrely hybridized.

“All Lean’s movies are Life Epics, about individuals… and their dawning conscience.”

A brutality so extreme as to border on black comedy.

Beauty — rapturous sexy sexy, glorious abandon at war with ethics.

He preferred thieves and roués to bosses, bureaucrats, and burghers.

Beneath the flash and fun, a slick of moral quandaries.

DAVID CRONENBERG (born 1943) has been lauded for his blurring of boundaries…

Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than…

The 1960s was a terrible decade for film and television comedy, but…

Ironists don’t understand Wood.

Filmmaker PRESTON STURGES (1898-1959) made a joyful mockery of the Hays Code…

The life and films of ROMAN POLANSKI (born 1933) in turn foreshadow,…

ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899-1980) was schooled in the genre conventions of the English…

JAMES WHALE (1889-1957) was born in England’s industrial Black Country. Here’s a…

Moving from Shanghai to Hong Kong at age five, WONG KAR-WAI (born…

Filmmaker CHANTAL AKERMAN (born 1950), the arthouse precursor to Charlie Kaufman, Jem…