In the early 1970s, it seemed like actor Rip Torn was well on his way to fame. What happened? A look at Torn's career and his three starring roles from his heyday: Coming Apart (1969), Tropic of Cancer (1970), and Payday (1973).
Read MoreRichard Boyle (James Woods) is a self-absorbed photojournalist who sees the conflict in El Salvador as his ticket to the big time.
Read MoreColin Firth and Kenneth Branagh are two WWI vets healing their broken spirits in A Month in the Country (1987).
Read MoreNowak is a man alone. He’s working in London, but officially he’s a nonentity. Moonlighting (1982) is a harrowing look into the mind of one man trying to survive in an alien land. Starring Jeremy Irons, written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End, The Shout).
Read MoreAnglo-American journalist Christopher Hitchens was long-time columnist and editor at both The Nation and Vanity Fair, covering politics as well as literature. His impact on the American political and cultural landscape is unmatched and now more valuable than ever as informed opinions become a rarified commodity.
Read MoreIn 1998, the brightest young reporter in Washington, DC, was exposed as a fraud. During his three years at the New Republic, journalist Stephen Glass fabricated over half of his articles; Shattered Glass (2003) is the story of how he got caught. Starring Hayden Christensen and featuring Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Hank Azaria, Rosario Dawson, and Steve Zahn.
Read MoreIn Christine (2016), Rebecca Hall portrays Christine Chubbuck, a television reporter who committed suicide during a live broadcast in July 1974. Directed by Antonio Campos and costarring Michael C. Hall, J. Smith-Cameron, and Tracy Letts.
Read MoreAfter the war, Tyrone Power played two very different men: one seeking enlightenment, the other trying to outrun it.
Read MoreThe Music of Chance (1993) is a lively adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel, which meditates on the roles luck, chance, and fate play in the lives of two men at the end of their ropes. Starring James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, and M. Emmet Walsh.
Read MoreAffliction (1997) is Paul Schrader’s saddest film starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, and Willem Dafoe.
Read MoreLa Question Humaine (2007) is a corporate Holocaust thriller starring Mathieu Amalric.
Read MoreJean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1973) serves as an epitaph for the French New Wave and a reminder of the golden month of May ‘68 when the world seemed to be on the brink of another, sweeter reality.
Read MoreBy the late 1960s Tuesday Weld and Tony Perkins were a couple of young actors tired of the Hollywood grind. They co-starred in two films during this turbulent period: in Pretty Poison (1968) they orchestrated a violent end to their on-screen alter egos and Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1972) showcases their talents as mature performers forging a new identity for the ’70s.
Read MoreFrench actor Michel Piccoli is responsible for some of the most wild and depraved characters in the last 60 years of French cinema, but remains elusive to American audiences because of his penchant for subversive supporting roles. Read about this provocative man who has worked with the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Marco Ferreri.
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