What I Watched Last Night...

The world (or at least an ocean liner) turned upside down

Paddy Chayefsky’s rant against TV

John Huston’s classic crime drama

Warren Beatty makes a comic book movie

Overstuffed turkey

A character study centered on the 2008 financial meltdown

Still as scary as ever

A classic of Japanese cinema

Looking at the world through the eyes of someone who won’t grow up

Off-beat British mid-70s disaster film directed by Richard Lester

Surprisingly gripping early Losey murder mystery

Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, lots of resources and a very bad idea

The film that nearly sank David Lean

George Roy Hill’s adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel

Seamy content filmed almost too well

Classic horror with a psychological twist

What it was like to be rich and Jewish in Fascist Italy

Sam Peckinpah’s controversial epic Western

Robert Altman’s murder mystery on an English country estate

A film that needs no introduction, but might benefit from some thought

Robert Redford runs for office

When the detective is not so smart

Why my output has slowed down

Paul Verhoeven’s epic WWII drama with Rutger Hauer

Mid-60s caper heist that inspired Mission: Impossible

Jean-Luc Godard’s provocative detective film with Anna Karina

Vampires in the '80s

A diabolical combination of adultery and horror from the director of Wages of Fear

An old-fashioned telling of a classic Christie mystery

Malcolm McDowell in a little-known costume adventure

Somewhat overrated Hitchcock thriller

17th century French history according to Roberto Rossellini

‘70s disaster film with a difference

Max Ophuls’s Hollywood masterpiece

All the scheming in the New York theatre world

Kander, Ebb, Fosse, Minnelli

Ridley Scott’s first feature, with Keith Carradine and Harvey KeitelI deal with this in greater detail here: https://cinema.usc.edu/assets/100/15998.pdf

Nicholas Roeg’s paranormal thriller, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie

Merchant/Ivory drama based on Henry James novel

The famous, if overrated, first segment

More high-style whodunnit hijinks from Michael Curtiz

Late Charlie Chan entry from Monogram Studios

Hammer Studios in the Sargasso Sea. What could go wrong?

Orson Welles’s over-the-top thriller, with Rita Hayworth

Tom Stoppard’s film of his famous play, with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman

Supposedly delightful , actually unbearable

All-star adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, starring Albert Finney

A dramatization of the Watergate break-in based on Bob Woodward’s book

Brian DePalma’s take on ’30s gangsters and G-men

Von Sternberg without Dietrich