Queen Christina: Angst on the Silver Throne
Greta Garbo. Photo: MGM In January 1934, Greta Garbo’s latest picture had not yet opened in her native country. Queen Christina depicted a Swedish 17th-century queen who abdicated the throne,…
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
David (Colin Farrell) rents a car at a mysterious agency and finds himself on a road trip with a woman (Margot Robbie) he met at a wedding; together, they journey…
Camille: An Unguarded Garbo
Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. Photo: MGM This adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas play and novel became one of Hollywood wunderkind Irving Thalberg’s last as producer. As in so…
Pauline at the Beach
Éric Rohmer’s perhaps most famous film from the 1980s invites us to romance and misunderstandings among a group of young people who frequent a beach on the northwestern coast of…
Eleanor and Franklin
Joseph P. Lash had always been close to Eleanor Roosevelt, but his ambitious 1971 biography of the Roosevelts’ marriage, based on previously unpublished letters and papers, won him a Pulitzer…
Love Among the Ruins
In 1911, successful London barrister Sir Arthur Grenville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) takes on a case that will have him representing an actress (Katharine Hepburn) he once courted… but he’s still hopelessly…
The Map That Leads to You
Heather (Madelyn Cline) is backpacking in Spain together with her friends when she meets Jack (KJ Apa) on a train to Barcelona; Hemingway helps them strike a connection. Lasse Hallström…
My Oxford Year
American Anna De La Vega (Sofia Carson) goes to Oxford to study Victorian poetry, where she eventually falls for the handsome young aristocrat (Corey Mylchreest) teaching her class… but he…
The Awful Truth: Warriners at War
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Photo: Columbia Columbia chief Harry Cohn was not happy with Leo McCarey’s behavior on the set of The Awful Truth. Cohn thought the director was…
Anna Karenina
In 1870s Russia, the wife (Greta Garbo) of a prominent statesman (Basil Rathbone) begins a love affair with a military officer (Fredric March). A romantic adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy…