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Long Hot Summer: The Mythos of the Pool On Screen

Trailer: 'Diabolique' (1955) Directed by Henri‑Georges Clouzot

Wet Hot American Summer; Backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol

Official Trailer Indie 'Pools'; By filmmaker Sam Hayes; Starring Odessa A'zion, Mason Gooding, and Ariel Winter

Film Commentary: 'La Pisine: Story Beneath the Surface' (1969) Avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet et Jane Birkin

Trailer: 'A Bigger Splash' (2015); 'La Pisine' Inspired; Directed by Luca Guadagnino; Starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, and Dakota Johnson

Trailer: 'The Graduate' (1967) Directed by Mike Nichols; Starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse

From 'Frankenstein' to Putin ('The Wizard of the Kremlin') to Assorted Dictators and Terrorists, Monsters Are Stalking The Venice Film Festival

‘Megalopolis’ to Re-Release in Theaters as Coppola Prepares New Edit

‘La Grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Ponders The Presidential Pardon In Stylish Drama [Venice]

A24’s Empire of Auteurs; Studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too

‘Urchin’: First Trailer for Actor Harris Dickinson’s Acclaimed Cannes Directorial Debut

For Yorgos Lanthimos, New Emma Stone Film ‘Bugonia’ Isn’t a Dystopia. It’s real

Lawrence Weschler: What We Can Learn From OG Film Editor and Filmmaker Walter Murch and Fine Artist Tristan Duke

Daniel Day-Lewis Returns; Official Trailer 'Anemone'; Directed by Ronan Day-Lewis; Co-written by Daniel and Ronan Day-Lewis; Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean and Samantha Morton

Official Trailer 'Hedda'; Fresh New POV in the Ibsen Drama; From Writer-Director Nia DaCosta; Starring Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss

Official Teaser Trailer 'Hamnet'; Directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao; Starring Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley, Joe Alwyn, Emily Watson, Jacobi Jupe, Jack Shalloo, David Wilmot

Creator Kathryn Bigelow on Her Upcoming Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’: “We Rarely Speak of the Shadow of (Nuclear Bomb) Annihilation”

A Lot of Work Went Into Whittling Down 'The Night Of The Hunter's 'Mammoth' Script; 300-page novel that became a 300-page script

Film School: Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends You See This Classic!

‘Scream Of Fear’ (1961)

Susan Strasberg lets loose with more than one ear-shattering “Scream of Fear” over the course of director Seth Holt’s neat and nasty little chiller, which, despite its modest budget and small cast, manages to thoroughly entertain with its creepy jump scares and a series of marvelously jaw-dropping surprise twists.

Playing Penny Appleby, a wheelchair bound young woman who’s come to live with her estranged father (Fred Johnson) and his icy new wife (a smooth and sinister Ann Todd), Strasberg brings a combination of sensual warmth and off-the-chain panic to her role.

One minute she’s flirting shamelessly with the chauffeur (a smoldering Robert Lewis), the next she’s bumping into the corpse of her dead father. Repeatedly. Cue the titular scream.

Is he dead or is she just imagining things? Enter Christopher Lee as an oily doctor with the hots for step mom and a nice cozy sanitarium for Penny.

The romance between Strasberg and Lewis is a nice counterpoint to the Gothic melodrama of it all, and builds to a particularly steamy scene where the chauffeur appears out of the darkness wearing the skimpiest pair of underpants imaginable. It’s weird and sexy and, strangest of all, actually sweet.

Best of all, the final ten minutes are breathlessly unexpected and absolutely bonkers. And only 81 minutes long! ~Justin Tanner

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Trailer 'Scream of Fear' (1961)

Official Trailer 'It Was Just An Accident'; Received big buzz at Cannes Film Festival; Directed by Jafar Panahi; Starring Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi and Hadis Pakbaten

Official Trailer 'The Thursday Murder Club'; Based on the bestselling novel; Starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie

Official Trailer 'Atomic'; Series created and written by Gregory Burke; Starring Alfie Allen, Shazad Latif, Brian Gleeson, Franklin Virgüez, and Stuart Martin