Directed by Elaine May • 1987 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani
Once synonymous with “box-office bomb,” this unjustly maligned road-movie comedy from national treasure Elaine May has been on a steady path to critical respectability ever since its disastrous premiere. Viewed today, May’s satire—an ’80s update of the popular Bing Crosby and Bob Hope vehicles—about a pair of talentless lounge singers (played against type by Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) swept up in Middle Eastern political intrigue can be appreciated as an endearingly goofy, often hilarious lark that never should have cut short the director’s brilliant career.
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3:10 to Yuma
Directed by Delmer Daves • 1957 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia FarrIn this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glen...
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The Last Emperor
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • 1987 • China
Starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci’s THE LAST EMPEROR won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated—quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and ...
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Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Ro...
Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb • 2022 • United States
Starring Robert A. Caro, Robert Gottlieb, Ethan HawkeTURN EVERY PAGE explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb, who passed away this June. Eighty-six...
