When Billy Wilder released Sunset Boulevard, the popular critical reaction was that it was going to kill the movie business, for how could anyone stand to watch the products of the dream factory after learning what was behind the magic?
Ranking the ten best Doris Day movies in the latest episode of The Classics Shelf, from Caprice to Pillow Talk with Rock Hudson.
In the latest edition of The Classics Shelf, Bil Antoniou spotlights world cinema by picking the best non-American films of the 1950s.
In a decade that included formative works by the Maysles, Frederick Wiseman, Peter Watkins, and other filmmakers, Bil Antoniou picks the top ten documentaries of the 1960s.
Talk about going out on a high note! Bil Antoniou picks the top ten "final films" in the latest edition of The Classics Shelf with films like The Dead and Red among memorable swan songs.
What are the worst songs to win the Oscar for Best Original Song? Bil Antoniou picks 10 flat notes in the history of the Academy Awards.
Ranking the 10 best films in Willem Dafoe's filmography, including The Florida Project, Platoon, The Lighthouse, and The English Patient.
If you're watching Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story and have a hankering for more creepers, check into the Bates Motel and read the Classics Shelf series on Anthony Perkins, including this final entry on the actor's later years.
In part 4 of The Classics Shelf's ongoing series about Anthony Perkins, Bil Antoniou looks at the actor in the 1970s with appearances in films like Murder on the Orient Express.
Part three in The Classic Shelf's ongoing series about the career of Anthony Perkins visits his films of the 1960s, aka the Psycho years.
In part two of The Classic Shelf's Anthony Perkins retrospective, Bil Antoniou, looks at the first decade of the star's career that saw him exploited as a teen idol in films like Friendly Persuasion, The Lonely Man, and This Angry Age.
Exploring the filmography of Anthony Perkins, the actor best known for his iconic performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Nobody's perfect, but Billy Wilder came damn near close. The latest edition of The Classics Shelf looks at the career of the director behind classics like The Apartment and Some Like It Hot.
He has an Oscar nomination for Divided We Fall and his films screen at prominent festivals worldwide, so why isn't Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk a household name in the arthouse circuit?
