Before the sequels, before the reboots, before the television shows, the action figures, the video…
The Film Canon
A series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. Everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to The Dark Knight. So we can all create a diverse list of essential movies for the young folk cinephiles to watch
The Film Canon: Les Diaboliques (1955)
It is no more possible to discuss the importance and impact of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Les…
The Film Canon: Black Narcissus (1947)
High above the world nestled on an impossible cliff, madness comes to Mopu. Once a…
The Film Canon: Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula was a demon, the Invisible Man a maniac, and Gill-man a literal monster. The…
The Film Canon: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
On July 6th, 2014, Richard Lester’s rock n’ roll musical comedy, A Hard Day’s Night, starring The…
The Film Canon: Transformers The Movie (1986)
The arrival of the fourth movie in Michael Bay’s Transformers series, subtitled Age of Extinction,…
The Film Canon: The Producers (1968)
Genre of the Day: Black Comedy “Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder have a scene in “The Producers”…
