For the Criterion Blogathon With the release of one of 2014's most unique films, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest H...

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963) Thinking of Paris and all of France today, and of films that evoke my own deep aff...

  The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd     AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR AND A BOOK GIVEAWA...

Frank Capra's wistful 1937 fantasy, Lost Horizon , begins dramatically with a chaotic mob scene at an airfield in war-torn Baskul, C...

50 years ago, I saw Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho for the first time. It was 1965 and though the film was originally released in 1960,...

Summer Under the Stars, August 22: Marlene Dietrich It was 1929, and Marlene Dietrich was appearing on the Berlin stage when Austrian-...

Mr. Benchley, by Al Kilgore Mr. Benchley, originally of Worcester, Massachusetts, was first and foremost enamored of Manhattan. He was ...

  Summer Under the Stars, August 9: Robert Walker From the New York Times ,  August 30, 1951: "Los Angeles, Aug. 29 - Robert W...

Let's ponder for a moment what Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) might have in common beyond having been ...