They’re the mechanical men who invade our movies. They’re the synthetic women who inhabit one’s dreams and can often haunt our nightmares. They’re not even alive – in the biological sense. These are the mechanized men and electronic women who star in fantastic science fiction movies and thrilling TV shows like “Metropolis” (Maria), “The Day ...
Think of Hollywood families, and many names — Bridges, Douglas, and Sutherland among them — come to mind, but fewer are the dynasties: those that have lasted three generations or more. First among any list of multigenerational film families (and not just because of alphabetical order) is the Barrymores. During the first decades of the ...
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” at least this is what Ali MacGraw’s character say in Love Story. But what if love means something else to another person? And what if it means two different things to one couple? And what does “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” mean anyway? To ...
In Criterion’s restoration of Fritz Lang’s marvelous film M (1931), Peter Lorre plays Hans Beckert, a serial killer of children on the loose in Post WWI Germany. The film isn’t a mystery because early on we learn Beckert’s identity. Instead, it is a thriller steeped in social commentary that is just as relevant today. The ...