1960s

Kill the star halfway through and cinema lost its innocence. Janet Leigh takes the wrong turn off the highway, Anthony Perkins red...

Marcello Mastroianni drifts through Rome nights, gossip, excess, and miracle mongers, toward emptiness. The word paparazzi comes f...

Jean-Paul Belmondo rubs his lip like Bogart, shoots a cop, and runs with an American girl selling newspapers on the Champs Elysees...

Lean at maximum scale: a British officer unifies Arab tribes against the Turks in World War I. Peter OToole blue eyes burn across ...

Kubrick found the only honest genre for nuclear war: farce. Peter Sellers plays three roles, including the wheelchair bound strate...

Three gunmen race for Confederate gold across a Civil War wasteland. Leone extreme closeups and the Ennio Morricone coyote howl th...

A nurse tends a mute actress on an island, and their faces merge in a famous splice. Bergman stripped cinema to two women, light, ...

Depression bank robbers as beautiful, doomed youth. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway made violence balletic, and the slow motion blo...

Dustin Hoffman, thirty playing twenty one, adrift after college, is seduced by Mrs. Robinson and falls for her daughter. Simon and...

Apes, monoliths, HAL 9000, and a star child. Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke built the most rigorous science fiction film: real space...

Leone went to Monument Valley and out Forded Ford: a widow, a harmonica assassin, a railroad, and Henry Fonda cast against type as...

Two bikers ride Mardi Gras money from Los Angeles to New Orleans and find America hostile to its dreams. Hopper directed, Peter Fo...

A nameless ronin with a shrug and a sword wanders into a town where two gangs are destroying each other and hires out to both side...

Soldiers captured in Korea come home programmed, and one of them holds a loaded deck of queens. Sinatra fights memory, Lansbury pl...

The Bond formula perfected in the third try: an Aston Martin with an ejector seat, a villain who smuggles gold in cars, a henchman...

Shot like newsreel in the streets where it happened, with non actors and a score that telegraphs dread. The FLN bombs the European...

Aging outlaws ride into 1913 where the railroad hires the killers and the old codes are receipts. The opening shootout and the fin...