Robert Ryan: the man who lived against type
Last year, New York’s wonderful non-profit, three-screen movie theater — Film Forum — held a two-week tribute to Robert Ryan. Although he never attained the full-fledged stardom of peers such as Burt...
View Article‘Executive Suite’: the ‘Margin Call’ of the early 1950s
Warner Archive has just released a new DVD version of the 1954 MGM hit “Executive Suite” which serves as an engrossing time capsule of life in the American business culture just a few years before the...
View ArticleThe good old/bad old days of Cold War paranoia films
The 1970s are often cited as the heyday of the paranoid thriller — thanks to “The Parallax View” (1974) and “Three Days of the Condor” (1975) and a few other key titles — but the genre really started a...
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