While working at Life magazine in the 1950s, photographer Robert Drew began to ponder why documentary films were so stale in style. And then he did something about it. In...
“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” Just over one percent of those active in the Korean War ...
“Ben, what are you doing?” “Well, I would say that I’m just drifting.” Benjamin Braddock has just graduated college. He should be celebrating downstairs with hi...
New York City is a city of hustle and bustle, where, as the opening title notes, “everybody is in such a hurry that they take Saturday’s bath on Friday so they can do...
The skier stands at the top of the hill, skis strapped to his feet and goggles on his face. From a certain angle, there seems to be no bottom. But he knows there is, and ...
“I don’t know what I’ve been doing with my life all these years.” Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura, who appeared in the majority of Akira Kurosawa’s works) has l...
We make decisions every day. Some might seem inconsequential, unrelated to anything that follows. We might not even consider them decisions; they are simply things that h...
Martha Beck works as a nurse in Mobile, Alabama. At the end of her shift, she walks home, kicking a child’s wheelbarrow out of her path. She’s a miserable, obese woma...
THE KILLERS (1946) – 5/5 The men drive into town and enter a small diner. One of them (William Conrad, who would go on to narrate the TV series THE FUGITIVE) announces ...
Water flows down the river at a rapid pace as rain falls. Then, out of nowhere but likely expected, a bomb drops, disrupting the peace in the water and the town. War is i...
