This summer, I dragged my mom to The Clairidge—a single screen movie theater in Montclair, New Jersey—for a matinee of Alexander Payne’s “Election.” The theater was featuring a series, titled “Clash ...

In one respect, Sofia Coppola’s debut film summons up reminders of John Schlesinger’s take on Far from the Madding Crowd. Both were period pieces. The Hardy adaptation looks back nearly a century.

In a memorable year for film, there were recommendations of blockbusters, tender dramas and coming-of-age-tales. But one title stood out from the rest. By Geordon Wollner A quarter-century later, the ...

The end of a year is time for stock-taking. A decade calls for even more. And a century or a millennium? The sheer potential for memory or fact overload can be mind-boggling. So, what can we say about ...

For 1999 week, our film writers carefully compiled and voted on a list of the 25 best films of the year. But even a list of 25 isn’t long enough to capture everyone’s favorite film from such a seminal ...

When you look at all the films that came out in 1999, it feels like every filmmaker was in a rush to make the last great movie of the 20th century. This ambition was possible in an era where studios ...

8mm is a 1999 mystery thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films.

The turn of the millennium — an exciting yet tumultuous time for many — was met with several incredible works and innovations: It brought us the deeply philosophical yet action-packed thrills of “The ...

Nowadays, self-aware comedies about popular genre films are a dime a dozen, but Galaxy Quest was one of the first and best. When aliens recruit the washed-up cast of a once-popular Star Trek-Esque ...