The Wages of Fear, Tokyo Story, and Roman Holiday are all among the greatest movies of 1953 that are now considered classics.
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George Clooney joins a long list of movie stars who play fake movie stars from Gloria Swanwon to Natalie Wood to Leonardo ...
Fear. We 21st-century people certainly experience these emotions, but, as Gal writes, the historian Rob Boddice argues that ...
From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to ‘Citizen Kane’ to ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ these canonical staples really are as good as everybody says ...
Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle ...
If The Third Man is the greatest film noir of all time, then the best film of 1950, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, can't be ...
Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle Ages, or even in the late 19th century, ordinary citizens spent as much ...
But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.
During World War II, British tugboat captains face near-certain death on suicide rescue missions in the North Atlantic, and they’ve developed a morbid tradition of passing along an apartment key—and ...
This article is part of Portrait Mode, a Slate pop-up series about biopics. The most thrilling moments in movies about artists are the ones where you feel as if you’re present at the moment of ...