By: Jacob Mikanowski

He transformed physical dissonance into spiritual beauty.

By: Brian Berger

His Cold War movies predict Pynchon’s seriocomic acuities.

By: Tucker Cummings

He won every available U.S. military combat award for valor.

By: Adam McGovern

The embodiment of What You Didn’t Talk About.

By: Brian Berger

His career was a study in contrasts, brilliant and awful.

By: Tucker Cummings

He was told that he wasn’t built to be a versatile actor.

By: Astra Taylor

Director of quirky, moving, political, philosophical documentaries.

By: Franklin Bruno

He defined or refined the dialogue comedy, the war picture, the detective yarn, and more.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

Dedicated to pursuing the truth about sex and desire.

By: Alix Lambert

“An art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures.”

By: Brian Berger

Before Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life!

By: Robert Wringham

Acrobatic satire of American go-getter culture.

By: Adam McGovern

An athletic, quick-witted sex symbol.

By: Tor Aarestad

She watches the world and reacts, viscerally, and she is us.

By: Mark Kingwell

She opened the floodgates of televisual self-parody.