Spike Lee’s career has been driven by the tension between black masculinity and black patriarchy – between black male pride and patriarchal pitfalls that it can produce. [...]

One of the biggest differences between Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola is that Coppola could never bear to make a mere genre film after Apocalypse Now – everything [...]

I can’t think of a film that spoke as directly to my sense of queer embodiment as My Own Private Idaho when I first watched it on VHS in the late 1990s. Gus Van Sant would [...]

For about a decade, Apocalypse Now seemed to be the last word on the Vietnam War. Francis Ford Coppola’s masterwork was so all-encompassing that it nearly killed him, [...]

With Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese crafted the film he had been yearning for from the very beginning of his career, while also providing the definitive counterpoint to Francis [...]

With the 1993 version of The Vanishing, George Sluizer remade his 1988 Dutch classic – this time with an American cast and for an American audience. The plot remains just [...]

During the early 90s, there was a convergence of theatrical releases and daytime melodramas. As directors looked for new ways to cement the lush aesthetic that was all the [...]

Bill Murray made the neurotic his stock in trade throughout the 80s but he reached new height with the role of Bob Wiley, “an almost paralysed multiphobic personality in a [...]

In Sleeping with the Enemy, Joseph Ruben established himself as a master of mise-en-scene, generating so much stillness, silence and poise that décor became a character in [...]