The best classic movies that have held up since their release were innovative in their own time and have poignant messages ...

From hardcover best-sellers to dog-eared paperbacks, novelists have given countless screenwriters in Hollywood the bones of a story to reinterpret and reshape into a more visual medium. A lot of ...

With notable titles such as Arsenic and Old Lace ... some critics citing it as the best movie of the year, while others felt ...

What exactly makes a movie a “classic” varies wildly and with the viewer, as does the appropriate timescale. For some, a movie from a decade ago might be eligible (I call these movie fans ...

Lately I have been thinking about the role that film literacy should play in the lives of educated, curious people — and, on that basis, which old movies I want my children to have caught at least ...