Citizen Kane: Billionaire and Enigma
Orson Welles. Photo: RKO When Sight and Sound recently polled critics all over the world for another list of greatest films, there were dramatic changes. Jeanne Dielman (1975) came out…
Sound of Music: Still Climbing Ev’ry Mountain
Julie Andrews. Photo: 20th Century Fox The movie is too good to be true. The real-life von Trapp family in Austria, whose adventures were chronicled by Maria von Trapp in…
West Side Story: When Maria Met Tony
Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood. Photo: United Artists Stage director Jerome Robbins was a key reason why ”West Side Story” became a groundbreaking Broadway hit in 1957. When the time…
The Haunting: That Damned House
Julie Harris. Photo: MGM Shirley Jackson's novel, on which this classic film was based, is often described as one of the finest horror stories of the twentieth century. Martin Scorsese…
Star Trek: Boldly Going to the Big Screen
William Shatner. Photo: Paramount Ever since the original TV series went into syndication, the Star Trek mania kept building throughout the 1970s. The time was ripe for the first movie adaptation and…