New York Times film critic A. O. Scott reminds us why Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990) is a modern masterpiece. Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s true crime book Wiseguys and starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco, Goodfellas follows the true story of Henry Hill and his life as a member of the Lucchese crime family.
I first saw “The Outsiders” in its initial theatrical release in the spring of 1983. At the time, I was a twelve year old kid in junior high like Ponyboy Curtis. Though I definitely had more in common with a Soc than a Greaser, I honed in on Ponyboy’s adolescent rumblings of confusion, anger and disconnection, as well as his desire to belong, to fit-in and to simply get along.
New York Times film critic A.O. Scott looks back at Nicholas Ray‘s 1950 film “In A Lonely Place,” a dark and terrific noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.
In this superlative paranoia thriller from Brian De Palma, John Travolta plays a B-movie sound man who accidentally records a political assassination when he's out recording sound effects. The assassination has a survivor: Nancy Allen, who should not have been…
I’m still not sure what this movie is about, but it is wonderful to watch. Steve McQueen is the essence of cool in this 1968 caper directed by Peter Yates. Apparently, his character was modeled after San Francisco Police Department inspector Dave Toschi (portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in David Fincher’s 2007 film Zodiac), but minus the bow tie. In addition to McQueen and his inimitable style, as well as a beautiful young Jacqueline Bisset, Bullitt features one of the most exciting car chases ever put on film, with McQueen doing much of his own driving in a Ford Mustang GT 390 fastback.
One of the greatest English language films of the 1960s... A successful high-fashion London photographer believes that he has photographed a murder. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and the inimitable Veruschka. An absolute must-see.
MOVE, a delightful sixty seconds of video by independent Australian filmmaker Rick Mereki, is one part of a "trilogy" of videos by the filmmaker.
In the wake of recent NYPD crackdowns on bicycling violations, videographer Casey Neistat got a ticket for not riding his bike in the bike lane. With hundreds of automotive and other "quality of life" violations happening every hour at any…
Like countless others, I absolutely loved the first season of the U.K. series Downton Abbey. It was like a romantic extension of Gosford Park. I watched all seven episodes in swift succession thanks to Netflix, and couldn't get enough. Though…
Sergio Albiac created this fascinating portrait of Queen Elizabeth using an innovative generative technique he developed called “generative video painting."