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Film enchantment, of a baroque species that mixes the sordid with the soaring, is Gilliam's specialty--that, and making movies with big ideas and impossibly spectacular imagery. At times his films become missions impossible. The Spanish shoot of his epic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with Johnny Depp...
The very first issue of Time, in March 1923, had film reviews. It called Charlie Chaplin "gorgeously funny." Much has changed about the movies since then, but great films have always got the magazine's attention. Here, from film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss, is the best film of...
When angry at someone, Lincoln would occasionally write a hot letter, but then would invariably put it aside until he had cooled down, at which point he no longer needed to send it. Lincoln had rarely been more "dejected and discouraged," as Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles observed, than...
Like War of the Worlds, Orson Welles' famous 1938 radio ruse that convinced thousands of Americans that Martians had invaded New Jersey, the 2½-hour Finnish program was out-and-out fiction, adapted from U.S. Playwright Jan Hartman's prizewinning play The Next War. Despite several on-air warnings, the...
Everyone's default choice for the world's greatest movie. Maybe so, maybe not. But it was (and remains) the movies' most fabulous blend of style and substance, full of beguiling camera and editing tricks as Welles traces the rise and fall of a man whose lust for power betrays...