Film School: Our Chief Film Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic!
Film School: Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends You See This Classic!
WHY OUR FILM CRITIC JUSTIN TANNER RECOMMENDS THIS CLASSIC
WHY OUR FILM CRITIC JUSTIN TANNER RECOMMENDS THIS CLASSIC
Film School: Why Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic
 'The Pumpkin Eater' (1964) directed by Jack Clayton, is an achingly brutal analysis of infidelity, jealousy and obsession starring Oscar nominated Anne Bancroft as a woman who can’t seem to stop having children; she is saddled with eight at the top of the film.
Her marriage to a philandering screenwriter (the always terrific Peter Finch), starts to disintegrate when she discovers his affair with her best friend (an unbelievably young Maggie Smith).
Harold Pinter’s script is strange and marvelous, and includes one of the greatest scenes ever captured on film: A brilliantly unhinged monologue delivered to Bancroft while at the hairdressers by the deliciously named Yootha Joyce. Joyce’s character, a lonely desperate woman under an adjacent
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Official Trailer 'Misty Green' Written and Directed by Chris Rock; Starring Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Chris Rock
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Official Trailer 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans' Directed by Grant Gee; Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf, Barry Ward, and Valene Kane
Inside Filmmaker Gregg Araki’s Kinky New Art-World Romp; ‘I Want Your Sex,’ starring Olivia Wilde as a vampy contemporary artist, is an art-world satire with a heart
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Interesting Remake. Official Trailer 'Sense And Sensibility'; Directed by British filmmaker Georgia Oakley; Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw
Full-Size Replica of Frank Lloyd Wright-Styled “North by Northwest” House in Park City; Videos on architectural styles of the mastermind criminal/villian and a walk through Hitchcock's film house
New Doc. Official Trailer 'Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul'
Official Spanish Trailer 'La Bola Negra'; Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo; Starring Guitarricadelafuente as Sebastián, Carlos González as Alberto, Miguel Bernardeau as Rafael, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, plus appearances by Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close
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Must See. Offical Trailer 'Paper Tiger'; Directed by James Gray; Starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldCb77jXIsM
Film Fest Fave. "One of the Best Films of 2026" Offical Trailer 'Josephine'; Written, Produced, and Directed by Filmmaker Beth de Araújo; Starring Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32NPBLpqZI
Offical Trailer 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York'; Directed by Noah Segan; Starring John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Steve Buscemi, and Jamie Lee Curtis
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Actress Maude Apatow Directorial Debut ‘Poetic License’ Lands at Sony Pictures Classics After Row K Debacle; Sharp story
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One Photo Changed ‘Odyssey’ Actress Samantha Morton’s Life; British actress's understanding of art, and herself, was altered by an unexpected encounter with an intimately familiar image by Nick Waplington
Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores; Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making
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Official Trailer 'Los Vampires' (2026); Written and Directed by Craig Mitchell. At Universal, in 1931, the famous film 'Dracula' starring Bela Lugosi was shot on the same sets that were used at night to recreate a Spanish-language version with a different cast and director. Strange things happended.
Official Trailer 'Jimmy'; 1948, Harlem writer James Baldwin goes to Paris. Artist navigating the world; Written and Directed by Yashaddai Owens; Starring Benny O. Arthur
From the Guy Ritchie IP and Netflix. Official Teaser 'The Gentlemen: Season 2'
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