It’s a spectacular night for watching classic movies from the 1960s and 1970s on TV. Between TCM and Cinemax, viewers tonight can choose from among All the President’s Men, The French Connection, and this Stanley Kubrick masterpiece from 1968 – still perhaps the best, most influential, and most audacious and ambitious science-fiction movie ever made. Whether you haven’t seen it in decades, or haven’t seen it all, you should tune in, and sing along with HAL. “D

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THE FRENCH CONNECTION By David Bianculli

Any film director planning a chase sequence still does so with this 1971 William Friedkin movie in mind, because it remains, all these decades later, the gold standard for location chase films. Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider star as New York detectives whose persistence is as indefatigable as their abrasiveness – and yet, for all their dedication and stubbornness, there’s a lot of 70s-era bleakness in The French Connection as well. Great movie – and the chop-shop sequence was ho

2017

Sep

WILD WEST By David Bianculli

This three-part series, from some of the makers of Planet Earth II, concludes its look at the American West tonight with a look at “Restless Shores” – the Western half of the “sea to shining sea” part of the U.S.

2017

Sep

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN By David Bianculli

To say that this 1976 movie, based on the Watergate reporting by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (who are played, respectively, by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), has a level of added resonance today because of current events would be to overstate the obvious. So I’ll say, instead, that this movie always has been one of my favorites – and is so well-acted, beautiful paced (the screenplay adaptation is by William Goldman), and moodily directed (by Alan J. Pakula) that it works any

2017

Sep

WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

In the lineup of tonight’s movies from the era, 1973’s Westworld is a minor entry – but given the subsequent pop-culture impact by writer-director Michael Crichton, both on such other resonant theme-parks-gone-awry works as Jurassic Park and HBO’s current Westworld reimagining, this film, starring Richard Benjamin, James Brolin and an iconic Yul Brynner, is especially enjoyable to reassess in modern times.

2017

Sep

'AMERICAN MASTERS' TAKES INDIE TURN WITH RICHARD LINKLATER By Roger Catlin

American Masters steps away tonight from the kind of old time cultural heroes they usually profile to a more unusual contemporary figure in the midst of his career — indie filmmaker Richard Linklater...

2017

Sep

'NEIL GAIMAN’S LIKELY STORIES' TAKES A DIFFERENT SLANT ON FRIGHT By David Hinckley

AMC’s boutique horror channel Shudder takes a different tack this week with Neil Gaiman, one of the genre’s modern masters...

2017

Sep

‘RICHARD LINKLATER – DREAM IS DESTINY’ SHOWS A BIG TALENT MAKING SMALL FILMS By David Hinckley

Richard Linklater may not be the best-known modern American movie director, but he may be the one that most other directors would secretly like to emulate...

2017

Sep

LITTLE EVIL By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This new Netflix movie, basically, is a comic spoof of The Omen – a horror comedy about a guy (Adam Scott) who marries a woman whose six-year-old son may turn out to be the Antichrist. The only real reason to watch is that the woman is played by former Lost star Evangeline Lilly – but Little Evil wouldn’t have been that surprising, or funny, 40 years ago, had it been released on the heels of The Omen. Today, it’s too Little, a

2017

Sep

BEACH PARTY By David Bianculli

TCM is throwing an end of summer beach party, with a night of beach films beginning with 1963’s Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. There’s no Where the Boys Are on board, but at 10 p.m. ET, another Avalon-Funicello pairing, Muscle Beach Party, is televised. It, too, was released in 1963. These movies didn’t take long to make.

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