The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) | The Criterion Collection
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s …
The Friends of Eddie Coyle: They Were Expendable
Apr 29, 2015 · "I think that work like his is necessary for people to understand something about the humors of the criminal mentality," said Robert Mitchum of the novel The Friends of Eddie …
Medium Cool (1969) | The Criterion Collection
It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. …
Orpheus: Through a Glass, Amorously - The Criterion Collection
Aug 30, 2011 · The crux of the drama for Cocteau lies in the relationship between Orpheus and Death itself. Cocteau’s ars poetica revolves around a dialectic of rot and renewal in which the …
Mad Man: Lou Castel in - The Criterion Collection
Apr 13, 2012 · His performance is one of exquisite coil and release. He’s a monster, but a delicate one, with an arsenal of hypnotic gestures. He both lumbers and, in moments of balletic grace, …
Carnal Knowledge: Men Talking - The Criterion Collection
Jul 22, 2025 · Nicholson is kinetic; often dry, with rolling eyes and a perked brow; but tense like a coil. As in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and The Shining (1980), it feels like he could do anything …
Blow Out: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer
Apr 25, 2011 · The following review of Blow Out was first published in the July 27, 1981, issue of the New Yorker. A t forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind …