In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s …

Apr 29, 2015 · "I think that work like his is necessary for people to understand something about the humors of the criminal mentality," said Robert Mitchum of the novel The Friends of Eddie …

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It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. …

When the Kajillionaire director saw sex, lies, and videotape as a teenager, she was transfixed by its exploration of desire mediated by technology, a theme that would later emerge in her own …

Aug 30, 2011 · The crux of the drama for Cocteau lies in the relationship between Orpheus and Death itself. Cocteau’s ars poetica revolves around a dialectic of rot and renewal in which the …

A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled …